Australian Olympic softball team takes off for Tokyo

Members of the Australian women's softball team departed Sydney on Monday, set to become the first group of Olympic athletes to arrive in Japan for the Tokyo Games.The 23 "Aussie Spirit" players and five staff will arrive in Tokyo on Tuesday before commencing pre-Olympics training in Ota, Gunma Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo.All team members, who have received coronavirus vaccinations, will be under strict restrictions while in Japan, where infections have been declining at a slow pace.The team members will be required to undergo daily PCR testing and be prevented from interacting with the …READ FULL ARTICLE