{"id":1275093,"date":"2022-02-05T23:52:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T04:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1275093"},"modified":"2022-02-05T23:52:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T04:52:43","slug":"report-china-keeping-winter-olympians-in-unreasonable-quarantine-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-china-keeping-winter-olympians-in-unreasonable-quarantine-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: China Keeping Winter Olympians in \u2018Unreasonable\u2019 Quarantine Conditions\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-china-keeping-winter-olympians-in-unreasonable-quarantine-conditions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1275093&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Man-Stands-in-Window-Bejing-Olympics-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">China is reportedly keeping coronavirus-positive winter Olympians in \u201cunreasonable\u201d quarantine conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Athletes and their delegations have blasted the \u201cquarantine hotels\u201d that athletes are sent to following positive coronavirus test results.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMy stomach hurts, I\u2019m very pale and I have huge black circles around my eyes. I want all this to end. I cry every day. I\u2019m very tired,\u201d Russian athlete Valeria Vasnetsova&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/winter-olympics-quarantine-hotels-e2d2ffc60d9800cf1951cc3eaed323cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complained<\/a>&nbsp;on her Instagram account.<\/p>\n<p>Vasnetsova criticized the meals she received, which included \u201cplain pasta, an orange sauce, charred meat on a bone, a few potatoes and no greens,\u201d&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/winter-olympics-quarantine-hotels-e2d2ffc60d9800cf1951cc3eaed323cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a>&nbsp;to the Associated Press. She reportedly said the meal was \u201cbreakfast, lunch and dinner for five days already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While at the quarantine hotel, Vasnetsova did research and \u201cconcluded the athletes were getting worse food.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to the&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/winter-olympics-quarantine-hotels-e2d2ffc60d9800cf1951cc3eaed323cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When fetching the food left outside her door, she took a glance at the boxes left outside other rooms in her corridor, whose doors were labeled with signs to distinguish Olympians from other people working at the Games who tested positive, such as team staff.<\/p>\n<p>She concluded the athletes were getting worse food, and underlined it with a picture of food served to her team doctor, who had also tested positive and was living two floors below. He had fresh fruit, a salad and prawns with broccoli.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI honestly don\u2019t understand, why is there this attitude to us, the athletes?!\u201d she&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/winter-olympics-quarantine-hotels-e2d2ffc60d9800cf1951cc3eaed323cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Vasnetsova will miss the Olympic Games due to her isolation.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear which athletes must go to the quarantine hotels, as some who test positive are sent there, and others are allowed to stay with their team inside the Olympic Village.<\/p>\n<p>Dirk Schimmelpfennig, head of the German delegation, called the quarantine conditions \u201cunreasonable\u201d after three-time gold medalist Eric Frenzel tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>Schimmelpfennig wanted \u201clarger, more hygienic rooms, and more regular food deliveries so athletes who are eventually released are still fit to compete,\u201d according to&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/winter-olympics-quarantine-hotels-e2d2ffc60d9800cf1951cc3eaed323cb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Belgian athlete Kim Meylemans escaped the quarantine hotels after posting a tearful&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blf_tv\/status\/1489630350171066375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a>&nbsp;to social media. Meylemans reportedly quarantined alone for two weeks, where she took two PCR tests a day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\"> D\u00e9chirant \ud83d\ude22La coureuse de squelettes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KimMeylemans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KimMeylemans<\/a> a \u00e9t\u00e9 test\u00e9e positive \u00e0 son arriv\u00e9e en <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Chine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Chine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>La Belge a \u00e9t\u00e9 inform\u00e9e qu&#8217;elle est mise en quarantaine seule pendant 14 jours, avec 2 tests <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PCR?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PCR<\/a> par jour <\/p>\n<p>Elle appelle \u00e0 l&#8217;aide..<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/XiJinping?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#XiJinping<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OlympicGames?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OlympicGames<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Chine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Chine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Belgique?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Belgique<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6NxarXHhbU\">pic.twitter.com\/6NxarXHhbU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BLF.TV (@blf_tv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blf_tv\/status\/1489630350171066375?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Our main goal was to get Kim to the Olympic Village in Yanqing as quickly as possible. We are therefore very pleased that this has now been successfully achieved.\u201d&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/winter-olympic-athletes-conditions-covid-quarantine-hotels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp; \u201cWe understand that the COVID measures are necessary to safeguard the safety and health of participants in the games, but we believe that the athlete should always be at the center of such an approach.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is reportedly keeping coronavirus-positive winter Olympians in \u201cunreasonable\u201d quarantine conditions. Athletes and their delegations have blasted the \u201cquarantine hotels\u201d that athletes are sent to following positive coronavirus test results. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}