In skiing Eric Frenzel and teammate Terence Weber will also miss the event on Wednesday
Beijing – Blocked in isolation due to the positivity to Covid that emerged yesterday, while teammates are preparing to begin the Olympic adventure with the first two descents of the single sled, the blue Kevin Fischnaller also vented on Instagram to express all his disappointment.
«Due to a positive test, I cannot compete in the biggest event of the year, the Olympics – writes Azzurro -. When I found out about the results of the test, I was devastated, all the work of the last few years done for nothing. Thanks for all the messages of support that I received and good luck to all the athletes out there, Forza Italia ». Kevin’s cousin Dominik Fischnaller and Leon Felderer will be on the track today for the first two heats of the Olympic race. None of them tested positive or placed under observation by contact.
On the first official day of competition, the organizers reported everything 45 cases of coronavirus. The number of positive tests carried out on Friday is more than double the 21 cases recorded the previous day, but organizers are not worried about the increase. “The overall number has increased, but it falls within our expectations,” said Huang Chun, Deputy Director General of the Organizing Committee of the Beijing Pandemic Prevention and Control Office.
With most of the athletes and team members now in place, organizers expect positive cases to arrive they will begin to decrease. Attention would now turn to infections within the closed loop, Huang said. “In general we think the situation is under control,” she said. “We have seen that in the three areas the positive cases (detected) have not spread,” she said. The Winter Games are held under strict coronavirus rules.
All participants are completely separated from the Chinese population. Each participant in the bubble must take a PCR test daily, after a first one upon arrival in the country. The organizing committee said in Saturday’s update that 25 athletes and team officials are among those who tested positive on Friday.
Three-time Olympic Nordic Combined Ski Champion Eric Frenzel will also miss Wednesday’s event at the Beijing Games due to his positive test for coronavirus. German team doctor Stefan Pecher has confirmed that Frenzel and teammate Terence Weber, who is also positive for the virus, will not be available for the first of three Olympic events. “I can’t release them for the first competition, I have to protect them,” said Pecher who added that he was confident that both athletes could compete in the big event on February 15 and in the team competition two days later. The two skiers in isolation require two negative tests to return to the team before the end of a 10 day period and one negative test after the period. The doctor said the first positive test carried out upon his arrival shocked Frenzel who has six Olympic medals in all, plus 15 world championships, seven of which are gold. “I’ve never seen him like this before. Not in defeat, not in moments of bad luck at the World Cup or the World Championships or the Olympic Games. He was really down, ”Pecher said. World Cup title holder Norway’s Jarl Magnus Riiber is also not expected to compete on Wednesday, he too has contracted Sars-CoV-2 virus
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