<p>Spain's women's hockey coach Adrian Lock was expecting to be bawling out instructions at his players from the sidelines at the Tokyo Olympics but has instead been left watching their progress on a laptop in a quarantine hotel after a positive Covid-19.</p>.<p>Briton Lock's saliva test came back positive half an hour before he was expected to hop on the team bus for a match against Australia early on Sunday.</p>.<p>"We're still doing exactly the same team meetings to prepare the matches," Lock told <em>Reuters</em> via WhatsApp on Tuesday.</p>.<p>"It's just that I am stuck in a hotel room.</p>.<p>"The biggest difference is during the matches themselves, instead of being on the bench, I watch the game on streaming and I'm in touch with the coach."</p>.<p>He added that he relies on a four-way telephone call with other staff members to allow him to coach the team during matches.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/sports/tokyo-olympics-live-Tokyo-2020-Olympics-Tokyo-Olympics-Japan-Covid-19-coronavirus-Tokyo-Tokyo-games-Japan-olympics-tokyo-summer-1013693.html" target="_blank">Follow live updates on the Olympics here</a></strong></p>.<p>"Instead of it being me who is giving the information to the players during the match, it's my assistant coach," he said.</p>.<p>Lock said Spanish medical officials thought the positive saliva test may have been a result of him testing positive for the virus in June, about a week after having his second Covid-19 vaccine dose.</p>.<p>He recovered before travelling to Japan and said he now had antibodies against Covid-19.</p>.<p>"I don't really have Covid now," he said. "It's just the remains of Covid that's in my system from the last time I had it. It's not a re-infection."</p>.<p>All of the other members of the team had tested negative for Covid-19 every day, said Lock, adding that Spanish medical officials were working to present his case to Covid-19 experts at the International Olympic Committee.</p>.<p>Lock hoped he could continue to take polymerase chain reaction tests to show that he did not have the virus.</p>.<p>Spain, who lost their first two matches at the Games to Australia and Argentina, face New Zealand on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Spain's women's hockey coach Adrian Lock was expecting to be bawling out instructions at his players from the sidelines at the Tokyo Olympics but has instead been left watching their progress on a laptop in a quarantine hotel after a positive Covid-19.</p>.<p>Briton Lock's saliva test came back positive half an hour before he was expected to hop on the team bus for a match against Australia early on Sunday.</p>.<p>"We're still doing exactly the same team meetings to prepare the matches," Lock told <em>Reuters</em> via WhatsApp on Tuesday.</p>.<p>"It's just that I am stuck in a hotel room.</p>.<p>"The biggest difference is during the matches themselves, instead of being on the bench, I watch the game on streaming and I'm in touch with the coach."</p>.<p>He added that he relies on a four-way telephone call with other staff members to allow him to coach the team during matches.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/sports/tokyo-olympics-live-Tokyo-2020-Olympics-Tokyo-Olympics-Japan-Covid-19-coronavirus-Tokyo-Tokyo-games-Japan-olympics-tokyo-summer-1013693.html" target="_blank">Follow live updates on the Olympics here</a></strong></p>.<p>"Instead of it being me who is giving the information to the players during the match, it's my assistant coach," he said.</p>.<p>Lock said Spanish medical officials thought the positive saliva test may have been a result of him testing positive for the virus in June, about a week after having his second Covid-19 vaccine dose.</p>.<p>He recovered before travelling to Japan and said he now had antibodies against Covid-19.</p>.<p>"I don't really have Covid now," he said. "It's just the remains of Covid that's in my system from the last time I had it. It's not a re-infection."</p>.<p>All of the other members of the team had tested negative for Covid-19 every day, said Lock, adding that Spanish medical officials were working to present his case to Covid-19 experts at the International Olympic Committee.</p>.<p>Lock hoped he could continue to take polymerase chain reaction tests to show that he did not have the virus.</p>.<p>Spain, who lost their first two matches at the Games to Australia and Argentina, face New Zealand on Wednesday.</p>
