MOSCOW (AP) — Russian figure skater Mikhail Kolyada hasactually been ruled out of next month’s Beijing Olympics after screening favorable for the coronavirus.
The Russian Figure Skating Federation stated Tuesday that Kolyada checked favorable ahead of takingatrip to a pre-Olympic training camp and hasactually been changed by Evgeni Semenenko.
“Several days ago Mikhail Kolyada began sensation weak,” the federation stated. “For all this time the skater has not been training.”
Kolyada was the just member of Russia’s three-strong guys’s group who had formerly contended at the Olympics and the just previous world champion medalist after winning bronze in 2018.
Semenenko signsupwith European champ Mark Kondratiuk and 2020 world junior champ Andrei Mozalev on the group.
Another Russian professionalathlete who dangers missingouton the Olympics is skeleton slider Nikita Tregubov, the silver medalist in2018 His coach Danil Chaban informed the RIA Novosti news firm Tuesday that Tregubov checked favorable for the coronavirus throughout a current training camp in the southern city of Sochi. Chaban stated Tregubov was being kepttrackof by medicalprofessionals priorto his arranged flight to Beijing on Jan. 31.
The stringent screening requirements priorto and throughout the Olympics are mostlikely to guideline out more professionalathletes. Two-time ski leaping gold medalist Andreas Wellinger will likewise missouton the Beijing Games since he evaluated favorable last week, one day priorto the German group was chosen.
“The danger for him and for the group is too high,” group representative Ralph Eder stated Tuesday.
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