Protecting olympic participants from COVID-19: the trialled and tested process

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome "Foro Italico", Rome, Italy.
• ² International Federation of Sports Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ³ Department of Sports Medicine, Humboldt University and Charité University School of Medicine, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁴ Puerto Rico Sports Medicine Federation, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• ⁵ Division of Sports and Rehabilitation Medicine, Ulm University Hospital, Ulm, Germany.
• ⁶ Sport Medicine, I M Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
• ⁷ Sport Medicine, Moscow Scientific and Practical Center of Medical Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, Moscow, Russian Federation.
• ⁸ Department for Health, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
• ⁹ Orthopaedic Center Theresie, Munich, Germany.
• ¹⁰ Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, USA.
• ¹¹ UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science an, Universisty of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ¹² Centre for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• ¹³ Sport Medical Center, Japan Institute of Sports Sciences, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹⁴ Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Stanford Hall, Loughborough, UK.
• ¹⁵ Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• ¹⁶ Unit of Endocrinology, Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome Foro Italico, Rome, Italy.
• ¹⁷ Medical and Informatical Research and Education, Tunis, Tunisia.
• ¹⁸ Hong Kong Sports Institute, Hong Kong, China.
• ¹⁹ School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK.
• ²⁰ Centre for Stress and Age Related Disease, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK.
• ²¹ SportS2, Liège University and University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium.
• ²² Sports Laboratory - Physical Health, Sports Medicine and Sports Traumatology Centre, Riga, Latvia.
• ²³ Department of Sports Medicine, San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
• ²⁴ GENUD "Growth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development" Research Group, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.
• ²⁵ Research and Scientific Support Department, Aspetar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar.
• ²⁶ Laboratory of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• ²⁷ Sports Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.
• ²⁸ FIMS Collaborating Center of Sports Medicine, Antalya, Turkey.
• ²⁹ FIMS Collaborating Center of Sports Medicine, Guadalajara, Mexico.
• ³⁰ Department of Orthopaedics, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil.
• ³¹ World Olympians Association (WOA), Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ³² Institute of Sports Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ³³ Austrian Institute of Sports Medicine, Vienna, Austria.
• ³⁴ Unit of International Law, Department of Constitutional, International and European Law, University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
• ³⁵ International Federation of Sports Medicine, Lausanne, Switzerland Y.Pitsiladis@Brighton.ac.uk.
• ³⁶ Centre for Exercise Sciences and Sports Medicine, FIMS Collaborating Centre of Sports Medicine, Rome, Italy, Rome, Italy.