Olympians in Tears over Lack of Food and Poor Living Environments at 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games
Olympians give harrowing takes of their Winter Game conditions and experiences of brutality
There have likewise been worries concerning how COVID-19 is being taken care of in the Olympic Village.
Valeria Vasnetsova, a Russian biathlon contender, took to Instagram to examine her encounters under Beijing's severe quarantine conditions.
“I’ve been getting this for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for five days now. I’ve lost a lot of weight and my bones are sticking out. I can’t eat anything else, I don’t know anything about my corona tests,” Vasnetsova wrote in a since-erased Instagram post.
“I only sleep all day because I don’t even have the strength to get out of bed. I only eat three handfuls of pasta a day because it’s just impossible to eat the rest of the food,” she added.
“My stomach hurts, I’m very pale and I have huge black circles around my eyes. I want all this to end. I cry every day. I’m very tired,” she composed, per the Associated Press, guaranteeing a similar supper was served for breakfast, lunch and supper for five days.
Vasnetsova added that she ate all the fat on a piece of meat “because I was very hungry.” She additionally guaranteed that a few competitors were deteriorating food than others.
Competitors who test positive for COVID-19 at the Winter Games, however are asymptomatic, should disengage in an assigned inn. For those encountering COVID-19 manifestations, quick hospitalization is required.
Competitors can get back to rivalry whenever they have submitted two sequential negative tests.
Belgian skeleton racer Kim Meylemans separated in tears in a video she presented on Instagram, clarifying how terrified and confounded she was about the COVID-19 conventions in Beijing.
Meylemans tried positive for the infection when she showed up, and later tried negative. Whenever she thought she was being moved to get back to the Olympic Village in Yanqing, she was taken by rescue vehicle to another disengagement objective.
Dirk Schimmelpfennig, the top of the German designation, referred to the lodging facilities as "unreasonable," while communicating worry about the disconnection conditions for three-time Nordic consolidated gold medallist Eric Frenzel, who was set in isolation subsequent to testing positive for COVID-19.
The Finnish Olympic group says Marko Anttila, previously of the Chicago Blackhawks, tried positive 18 days prior yet delivered a few adverse outcomes preceding flight.
Lead trainer Jukka Jalonen impacted: “Marko has been with our team for about a week before we came here and he tested negative.”
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“We know that he’s fully healthy and ready to go and that’s why we think that China, for some reason, they won’t respect his human rights and that’s not a great situation,” he added.
Ploish speedskater Natalia Maliszewska said she was damaged after authorities set her free from confinement and restored her to the Olympic town at 3 a.m., however at that point took her back to disengagement guaranteeing they committed an error.
“I was sitting in the ambulance. It was 3am. I was crying like crazy because I didn’t know what was going on. I did not feel safe at all,” Maliszewska, 26, said, as indicated by Reuters.
“They had told me at midnight that I could go out and five minutes later that I could not,” she said. “They told me there’s so many politics stuff that you will not understand. It’s China.”
The International Olympic Committee put out an announcement about the matter, saying, “We are aware of the complaints raised by some athletes, particularly with regard to food temperature, variety and portion size. The issues are currently being addressed together with Beijing 2022 and the respective management of the facilities concerned.
“We feel for every athlete who cannot compete because of a Covid-19 infection. The protocols have been put in place to ensure safe Olympic Games for everyone. All the cases are managed in full accordance with the rules stated in the Playbooks and in the adjustments which were made to the protocols.”
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