<p>A bear appears to have ignored the ban on spectators at the Olympics.</p>.<p>Japanese media reported a bear was seen by guards early Wednesday at Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium before Japan and Australia's softball teams met in the opening event of the Olympics.</p>.<p>Fukushima is about 150 miles north of the main Olympic sites in Tokyo. Local media reported it was an Asian black bear.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/sports/other-sports/fight-japanese-cheerleaders-root-for-athletes-as-games-set-to-open-1011390.html" target="_blank">'Fight!': Japanese cheerleaders root for athletes as Games set to open</a></strong></p>.<p>“I woke up to text messages asking, is this real? There's a big black bear, saying that it got on the field, it got in the area and it's on the loose. And I felt, what? This is crazy. No way," shortstop Amanda Chidester said after singling in the run in the Americans' 1-0 win over Canada on Thursday.</p>.<p>"And then one of the girls on our team said: 'Yeah, did you hear about the bear? It was on the news.' So I was able to report back to my family and say it was, in fact, true, that there was a bear in the area.”</p>.<p>There was no sighting of the bear during either Wednesday or Thursday's tripleheader.</p>.<p>“As we were driving up today, we were actually looking to see if we could find another bear,” US coach Ken Eriksen said.</p>
<p>A bear appears to have ignored the ban on spectators at the Olympics.</p>.<p>Japanese media reported a bear was seen by guards early Wednesday at Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium before Japan and Australia's softball teams met in the opening event of the Olympics.</p>.<p>Fukushima is about 150 miles north of the main Olympic sites in Tokyo. Local media reported it was an Asian black bear.</p>.<p><strong>Also Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/sports/other-sports/fight-japanese-cheerleaders-root-for-athletes-as-games-set-to-open-1011390.html" target="_blank">'Fight!': Japanese cheerleaders root for athletes as Games set to open</a></strong></p>.<p>“I woke up to text messages asking, is this real? There's a big black bear, saying that it got on the field, it got in the area and it's on the loose. And I felt, what? This is crazy. No way," shortstop Amanda Chidester said after singling in the run in the Americans' 1-0 win over Canada on Thursday.</p>.<p>"And then one of the girls on our team said: 'Yeah, did you hear about the bear? It was on the news.' So I was able to report back to my family and say it was, in fact, true, that there was a bear in the area.”</p>.<p>There was no sighting of the bear during either Wednesday or Thursday's tripleheader.</p>.<p>“As we were driving up today, we were actually looking to see if we could find another bear,” US coach Ken Eriksen said.</p>