The Australian Olympic Committee says there is not likely to be any wiggle room for the dates of its long-awaited vaccine program after Swimming Australia raised the prospect of a delay to ensure its athletes wouldn’t be suffering side effects during the Olympic trials in June.
“We have a situation now where we’re working with Aspen Medical, they are experts in rolling out the vaccine. Now it’s about rolling it out as soon as we can, particularly for athletes going away before the Games,” Chesterman said. Swimming Australia has stringent qualifying times that are below the FINA A qualifying marks for the Games but said it would not relax its standards regardless of the vaccine timetable.
Large numbers of athletes will return from their Tokyo bubble on charter flights, while others and officials will come back on commercial flights, meaning a range of quarantine options were on the table. The AOC has previously said it was exploring the use of resorts or camps like Howard Springs in Darwin.“We want to come in so we are above the cap, we don’t want to slow the process of people wanting to return into Australia.
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