Olympic teams raise concerns over quarantine hotels
Source: AP
By JAMES ELLINGWORTH
BEIJING (AP) Not enough food. Inedible meals. No training equipment. Some Olympic athletes unlucky enough to test positive for the coronavirus at the Beijing Olympics feel their quarantine conditions are making a bad situation much worse.
My stomach hurts, Im very pale and I have huge black circles around my eyes. I want all this to end. I cry every day. Im very tired, Russian biathlon competitor Valeria Vasnetsova posted on Instagram from one of Beijings so-called quarantine hotels.
Her problem wasnt with any symptoms of the virus. It was the food.
Vasnetsova posted a picture Thursday of what she said was breakfast, lunch and dinner for five days already a tray with food including plain pasta, an orange sauce, charred meat on a bone, a few potatoes and no greens.
Biathletes skate above the Olympic rings during practice at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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Tommymac
(7,263 posts)At all.
The Games should have been cancelled. US should have boycotted.
In fact, the Olympics are dead. Now just a platform for Corporations to harvest profits from, and Dictator's to use to legitimatize their regimes.
So sad.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Completely Agree
Trueblue1968
(17,238 posts)PatSeg
(47,587 posts)nycbos
(6,038 posts)The United States boycott of the 1980 games in Moscow over the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.
Likewise the Soviets boycotted the Games for years later in Los Angeles in response to our boycot.
Neither US or the USSR really achieved anything by boycotting the Olympics.
Also the IOC's embrace of dictators is nothing new as Bob Costas talked about here.
The only thing that might possibly change the IOC's mind of giving games to countries like China is if there are significantly lower ratings.
HUAJIAO
(2,397 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)cancelled these games.
orleans
(34,073 posts)Vasnetsova passed her time in quarantine with a little detective work. When fetching the food left outside her door, she took a glance at the boxes left outside other rooms in her corridor, whose doors were labeled with signs to distinguish Olympians from other people working at the Games who tested positive, such as team staff.
She concluded the athletes were getting worse food, and underlined it with a picture of food served to her team doctor, who had also tested positive and was living two floors below. He had fresh fruit, a salad and prawns with broccoli.
I honestly dont understand, why is there this attitude to us, the athletes?! she wrote.
maybe they are feeding the athletes a bunch of shit because they are the competitors and don't want them doing well in their competitions
Lancero
(3,013 posts)China really thinks about Russia, despite all their claims of friendship.
forthemiddle
(1,382 posts)I hate to be a conspiracy nut, but are we trusting the Chinese to test our athletes?