tokyo tokyo entered the final olympic countdown on friday but there was little fanfare with just one week until the opening ceremony as virus infections surge in the japanese capitalorganisers have been forced to bar spectators from all events in the city and most venues hosting competitions elsewhere in the countryand olympic participants from athletes to media face a range of antivirus measures including regular testing and limits on their movementbut with tokyo recording its highest case numbers since a winter wave in january scrutiny of virus risks around the games is intensethe government has asked organisers to investigate reports of olympic participants breaking virus rules and impose strict punishment if necessary government spokesman katsunobu kato told reporterson thursday international olympic committee chief thomas bach insisted antivirus rules were in place and they are working and they are enforcedamong thousands of gamesrelated arrivals to the country in july only a handful of positive cases have been recordedover the past two days organisers have reported 10 positive tests among games participants in japan including one athleteother cases have been found among teams arriving for training camps with local media reporting friday that a member of nigerias delegation had been hospitalised after testing positive at the airporttokyo is currently under a virus state of emergency that will run throughout the games but the measures are much looser than a lockdown and mostly limit alcohol sales and restaurant opening hoursjapan has seen a smaller outbreak than many countries with fewer than 15000 deaths despite avoiding harsh lockdowns but only around 20 percent of the population is fully vaccinated so fardozens of teams are already in japan some at training camps dotted around the country and others in the olympic village where national flags have been hung on the buildings housing delegationsbritish weightlifter sarah davies was among the athletes posting on social media about life at the pandemic olympicswe have what we call the prison yard she said in a video posted on her instagram account as she walked on a stretch of pavementso we can literally walk up and down this stretch between the hours of 7 am and 10 am and that is the only time were allowed outside she saidgenuinely feels like were in prison but hey it is what it is welcome to olympic games covid editionother teams in town including american swimmers and star gymnast simone biles also posted images from their training sitesbach visited hiroshima on friday to mark the start of an olympic truce that aims for a halt to all hostilities so athletes and spectators can attend the games safelybut the visit sparked some controversy with over 70000 people signing a petition opposing his trip and accusing bach of using hiroshima and nagasaki to promote the olympics even though it is being forced through despite oppositionthe german former fencer laid a wreath at a memorial to victims of the atomic bombing in hiroshima and appeared shaken after visiting a museum documenting the attack and its