Chinese athletes ready for Tokyo Games

"It takes a little longer than before, but the trip is fairly smooth, and my whole team is in good condition and ready for title challenges," Liu Guoliang, president of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, said on Saturday after going through complicated formalities that included a COVID-19 test upon landing in Tokyo.

Some of the teams, arriving in peak hours at the airport, had to wait up to five hours before receiving their negative test results and being allowed to go.