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"I am heartbroken," she said on her Instagram account. "Luckily
we've been following the protocols so my fellow skateboarders
still get to shine bright."
The Dutch Olympic team said Jacobs had been placed in a 10-day
quarantine. In a statement, it added that its medical advisers
have continuously been in contact with the athlete.
"It is Candy's worst nightmare," the delegation's Chef de
Mission Pieter van den Hoogenband said in the statement.
"TeamNL and Candy will do everything to respect the rules here
and follow all the necessary instructions from Tokyo2020. We are
very pleased that the rest of the team can continue in the
Olympics," he added.
Skateboarding is making its Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games.
Jacobs started in the sport at age 13 after her mother dropped
her off at a local skatepark. Now 31, the Dutch street rider was
recovering from knee surgery earlier this year, which she said
altered her ideas around the sport.
"We are the first generation to learn how an event of that scale
can affect your perception of and approach to skateboarding,"
she said last year.
(Reporting by Ritsuko Ando, Daniel Leussink and Mari Saito;
Editing by Ana Nicolaci da Costa)
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