For athletes, boarding the plane to Beijing is already a win

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BEIJING — With just over a week until the Winter Games begin, teams are frantically trying to ensure that athletes stay virus-free to get past Beijing's strict checks and make it to the start line as the highly infectious Omicron variant threatens to dash Olympic dreams.

Several teams have reported positive cases of Covid-19 amongst their athletes and coaching staff this week just days before their scheduled departures for China, throwing careful preparations into disarray.

The Russian team has also been hit by several cases, including figure skater Mikhael Kolyada, who will no longer compete in Beijing after testing positive. Skeleton racer Nikita Tregubov, who won silver in 2018, may also miss out after two positive tests during a training camp in Sochi, southern Russia, his coach said on Tuesday.

In Sweden, the cross country team's ski-waxers have been isolating at home apart from the skiers who have been training in Italy.

 

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