“There are foods I can’t even eat. My bones started to come out bare… . I cry every day. I hope everything is over.”
The poor facilities and poor meals at the hotel quarantined for the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) at the Beijing Winter Olympics are drawing resentment from athletes.
According to the Associated Press on the 5th, a Russian biathlete who was quarantined in a hotel after testing positive for Corona 19 while trying to compete in the Beijing Olympics recently appealed to Instagram.
He was in quarantine at a hotel in Beijing, and he complained that he was living in pain due to poor health management due to poor diet.
The photo he posted on the plate included simple pasta, charred meat, some potatoes, and no fresh vegetables.
He survived by eating only the pasta in small portions so that he did not die, but he insisted that it was because he could not eat the rest.
He also complained that he had lost a lot of weight, and that there was a shadow around his eyes and that he felt pain in the stomach as well.
Other players are making similar complaints one after another.
If you test positive for COVID-19 and are asymptomatic, you will be quarantined at the hotel. During this period, contact with the outside world is virtually lost, so the situation is not known properly, but the problem gradually comes to the surface.
After all, the quarantine is lifted and you can participate in the game, but the quarantine hotel is not equipped with basic exercise equipment.
Other athletes in Beijing are also trapped in the ‘Olympic bubble’, and the frustrating situation where they cannot help each other continues.
An official from the German team said in an interview with the national media that the isolation environment was at an unacceptable level and demanded that “a more sanitary and larger space is needed.”