The Nuclear Winter Olympics, Day -2: This is getting sickening...

• Plunge Protection Team had to stave off another 600 point loss in the Dow video game score this morning.
• The headline is quite literal.  Deadspin reports this morning that over 1,200 security workers in Korea have been sent home, days before the start of the Games, with norovirus.
• According to Inside the Games, reporting from the IOC convention:  There is talk Russia may be allowed to march as their own country in the Closing Ceremonies in PyeongChang.
• Russia was a huge subject on the first day of the IOC meeting, but the USA Gymnastics scandal was not spared.  It does not appear, though, the IOC will do enough to force reforms on USA Gymnastics, as a lot of that discussion appeared to be useless hand-wringing.
• Sports Illustrated is telling Americans who wish the USA at the top of the medal table to save their breath.  Their projections have the USA a distant fourth on the medal table, Canada actually defeating them both in total and in Olympic criteria (golds first, silvers and then bronzes to break ties).  The skiing events have Norway their projected table-topper, and by a fair distance, with the sliding events aiding Germany to second. 
• CNN's projections have the USA a distant third to Germany and then Norway.