BEIJING: For athletes at the Beijing Winter Olympics, testing positive for Covid is one of their worst nightmares, and it can begin with a knock on the door in the middle of the night.
“It was insane, it was a rollercoaster,” said Kim Meylemans, a skeleton racer from Belgium.
The 25-year-old posted a tearful video on Instagram last week from isolation which highlighted the perils of competing in the middle of a pandemic.
Meylemans said she tested positive about a month ago, before arriving in the Chinese capital, but “here things just went from bad to worse”.
“A positive test, then negative, then positive again in the middle of the night and a quarantine hotel,” said Meylemans, whose turbulent Games ended on Saturday when she came 18th in the skeleton.
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