Medal hope Hill out of Tokyo Olympics

British medal hope Amber Hill has withdrawn from the women's skeet competition at this summer's Olympics after testing positive for Covid-19.and finished sixth at the Rio 2016 Games.She was due to participate in Sunday's qualifying event with the final scheduled to take place on Monday.

One athlete who feared her Games might be over after she was identified as a close contact of a member of the public who tested positive on the flight to Japan has been given hope she can compete. "When I was initially told, I was just told 'Oh Jessie we need to speak to you' so my heart dropped and to be honest I thought I'd tested positive," the 27-year-old told BBC Sport. "The fact that I was just a close contact, I was really relieved."

"You don't want to miss 14 days of training going into the biggest race of your life so I was panicking but it was communicated so quickly that I would be able to train so long as we were providing those negative tests."

Obviously not following the rules 🙄 AmberHill

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