1st Tokyo Games athlete hospitalized due to COVID-19

A foreign Paralympian has been hospitalized after contracting COVID-19, the first such case among athletes either at the Tokyo Olympics or Paralympics, the games organizing committee said Thursday.Masanori Takaya, spokesman for the committee, told a press briefing the athlete, who was hospitalized Tuesday night, is not in a "serious condition."The committee on Thursday confirmed another 13 positive COVID-19 cases linked to the Paralympics, which brought the cumulative total from Aug. 12 to 275.Also, International Paralympic Committee spokesman Craig Spence said that Belgian wheelchair tenni…READ FULL ARTICLE