In Japan, boxing nurse's Olympic dream crushed by COVID-19

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Japanese nurse Arisa Tsubata has trained around her work shifts for over a year to prepare for a final Olympic boxing qualifier in the hope of ...

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Japanese nurse Arisa Tsubata has trained around her work shifts for over a year to prepare for a final Olympic boxing qualifier in the hope of making it to the Tokyo Games this summer.related media assets available. Click to see the gallery.TOKYO: Japanese nurse Arisa Tsubata has trained around her work shifts for over a year to prepare for a final Olympic boxing qualifier in the hope of making it to the Tokyo Games this summer.

Since then, she has trained over three hours a day during the week and extra hours on Saturdays, only taking Sundays off to rest or to get a massage."It's very disappointing," said Tsubata, who currently works at the Life Support Clinic in Tokyo."I had been working so hard for a year after the postponement of the Olympics, and it's so frustrating that I don't even have the right to compete.

Her feeling of frustration and uncertainty is shared by many athletes globally whose careers have been thrown into limbo, after the pandemic dashed some people's life-long dreams of participating in the global sporting event.The IOC has a June 29 deadline to wrap up qualifications for this year's Olympics and with the cancelled qualifiers, it now has to allocate about 53 spots in boxing across several regions based on ranking points since 2017.

As a nurse and a boxer, she has mixed feelings about whether the Olympics due to start in July should go ahead as cases rise.

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