Cross-country skiing-Swedes switch pre-Olympic ski camp over COVID fears

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STOCKHOLM : Sweden's cross-country skiers have moved their final pre-Olympic training camp at altitude in Italy to Livigno amid reports of a rising number of COVID-19 cases in their original destination of Seiser Alm, the country's ski federation said on Saturday.'That (the rising number of positive tests

STOCKHOLM : Sweden's cross-country skiers have moved their final pre-Olympic training camp at altitude in Italy to Livigno amid reports of a rising number of COVID-19 cases in their original destination of Seiser Alm, the country's ski federation said on Saturday.

The team of 18 Swedish athletes - 17 of whom will compete at the Beijing Games and one reserve - will travel to Livigno, some 170km west of Seiser Alm, on Saturday for almost two weeks of altitude training before departing for China on Jan. 27.

 

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