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[Eupher]

Beijing 2022 Olympics: Belgian Skeleton Star Cries at Continued Isolation

My first reaction when I read this -- she forgot her blankie at home.

Belgian skeleton star Kim Meylemans updated on Feb. 3 that after the IOC’s involvement, she was finally given a room at the Beijing Olympic Village.

The 25-year-old cried on social media on Feb. 2 as she explained that she was in an isolation facility after being quarantined for three days despite a number of negative COVID-19 tests, and worried that she couldn’t participate in the competition.

I am now in a wing that is just as isolated but at least I’m back in the village. I feel safe and I will be able to train a little better here so thank you all,” Meylemans said in an Instagram video on Feb. 3.

Currently, Meylemans lives in a single room at the Olympic Village as a close contact of a COVID-19 patient, where she can train but has to take the transportation alone, and eat alone.

More at the link, if you can stomach it.

Epoch Times

[SVPete]

Welcome to Xi's China, where his No-Covid policy has kept the level of resistance/immunity to Covid in China lower than it should be.

I "get" athletic ambition and that the Olympics are considered a pinnacle of achievement, but I think world-class athletes should have foregone Xi's Olympics ... which are akin to Hitler's, except that Xi's genocide is more advanced and better known to the world.

[DLR Pyro]

Welcome to Xi's China, where his No-Covid policy has kept the level of resistance/immunity to Covid in China lower than it should be.

xi's no covid policy is about 2 1/2 years too late

[SVPete]

xi's no covid policy is about 2 1/2 years too late

Actually, it's been his policy since some time in January or February 2020. Total shutdowns - really total, not the much more lax measures done in the US and EuroLand - stop an outbreak (until the next outbreak), but very much slow the build-up of resistance in an area's population, consequently making the population vulnerable much longer than it otherwise would.

[Eupher]

Hmmm. Kinda thought the business about "crying" was the central theme of the OP, but hell, I'm not above waltzing down a different path once in a while 

IIRC, the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo were an unmitigated disaster from an attendance and financial viewpoint. Of course, the ChiCom virus had a lot to do with that, but it would seem that people just aren't interested in athletes - some, anyway - who are more leftist activist than athlete. Gwen whats-her-face comes to mind.

Maybe the IOC should pay attention to some of that.