Winter Olympic athletes have put China’s coronavirus quarantine hotels on blast over a lack of edible food and training equipment while they wait to test out of isolation.
athletes have put China’s coronavirus quarantine hotels on blast over a lack of edible food and training equipment while they wait to test out of isolation.
Biathlete Valeria Vasnetsova of Russia competes in the women's 10km pursuit event at the Krasnoyarsk 2019 Winter Universiade. Vasnetsova scrutinized the meals she was receiving at the hotels, posting on Twitter about her"breakfast, lunch and dinner for five days already" – a tray with plain pasta, orange sauce, charred meat on a bone, potatoes and no greens.Vasnetsova's COVID isolation will force her to miss the Games.
Kim Meylemans of Belgium competes in the women's skeleton during the BMW IBSF World Cup Bob and Skeleton 2021/22 at Veltins Eis-Arena Dec. 10, 2021, in Winterberg, Germany.She said she felt safer after being brought to the village but still needed seven days of testing before she can be released from isolation.
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