The Winter Olympic Virus: Day -7
- Norway may be well on it's way to having it's cross-country team gutted due to COVID. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Simon Hegstad Kruger is out for at least part of the Games due to the virus.
- An interesting twist in the Peng Shuai story -- the IOC is attempting to broker a meeting between Shuai and IOC president Thomas Bach. Bach has said that, if possible, the meeting will take place inside one of the Olympic bubbles.
- South Korea will partially diplomaticly boycott the Opening Ceremony -- instead of the President of South Korea, the sports minister will take his place at the event one week from today.
- More countries are being asked to diplomaticly boycott the Games. I think it should be far more than that, and not just for China's human-rights abuses.
- The International Paralympic Committee President, Andrew Parsons, will not attend the Games. He has COVID right now. The Winter Paralympics start March 4th.
- Four-time Olmypic equestrian gold medalist Judger Beerbaum is suing a German broadcaster for revealing that Beerbaum is under criminal investigation in Germany for illegal training techniques and abuse of the horses.
- At least three, and possibly four, Paris 2024 events are being moved to other parts of the country:
- Volleyball
- Badminton
- Swimming are confirmed moved
- Shooting is the next possible move to a venue three hours south of the main Olympic area.
- Pita Tautafalua will not be competing at these Games, as he's been taking time to deal with the rebuilding of Tonga after the tsunami from an underwater volcano explosion last week.
- In the first sensical statement a Russian sporting official has probably said in years: The head of the Russian Ski Federation has opined that the Beijing Winter Olympics should have been postponed. Oh my God... Blind squirrel, stopped clock...
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