Olympic teams raise concerns over quarantine hotels

[Omaha Steve]

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, 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,” Russian biathlon competitor Valeria Vasnetsova posted on Instagram from one of Beijing’s so-called quarantine hotels.

Her problem wasn’t 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)


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/winter-olympics-quarantine-hotels-e2d2ffc60d9800cf1951cc3eaed323cb

[Tommymac]

1. Personally I feel for the athletes, but we will not watch this POLITICAL Kabuki.

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]

10. +1000000

Completely Agree

[Trueblue1968]

2. USA should not have participated in my opinion. CHINA is a horrible country

[PatSeg]

3. Yes, that was what I was thinking

[nycbos]

6. Unfortunately Olympic boycotts were tried in the past and weren't successful.

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.

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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]

8. Have you ever been to China?

[llashram]

4. should have

cancelled these games.

[orleans]

5. from the link

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 don’t 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]

7. Russians complaining about how the Chinese are treating em. Pretty good example of what...

China really thinks about Russia, despite all their claims of friendship.

[forthemiddle]

9. Who is overseeing the tests?

I hate to be a conspiracy nut, but are we trusting the Chinese to test our athletes?