U.K. Athletics looking into athlete comments about ‘faked’ COVID test
The Hindu
In a now-deleted episode of The Sunday Plodcast, Butchart said there was a delay in getting his PCR test result before his flight and he had changed the date on an old test as he prepared for check-in, The Times reported.
U.K. Athletics is looking into comments by 5,000 metres runner Andrew Butchart that he changed the date on a COVID-19 test result in order to return to Britain after an international event, though the Scot has since clarified his remarks. In a now-deleted episode of The Sunday Plodcast, Butchart said there was a delay in getting his PCR test result before his flight and he had changed the date on an old test as he prepared for check-in, The Times reported. “Everybody has faked PCR tests, I’m sure, to try to go somewhere, because it’s just so hard,” Butchart, who has been named in Britain’s team for Tokyo, was quoted as saying in the podcast.More Related News