It’s been a long road to the 2022 Winter Olympics — no one knows that better than the athletes and supporters attending the Games.
It’s been a long road to the — no one knows that better than the athletes and supporters attending the Games. Ahead of Friday’s opening ceremony, they have had to take serious precautions to deal with concerns about. Getting to the Games required a series of invasive tests and two weeks of health monitoring using a Chinese-created mobile app. The negative test results and other health data had to be uploaded and reviewed by Chinese organizers. Once the tests were approved, attendees could board their flights to take them to the „Beijing Bubble.“ Those flights are separate from the ones the athletes take. Nicole Silveira, a member of Brazil’s skeleton team, said the past few months have been anxiety-filled. „The last two months specifically have been even harder, just trying to just hide from COVID. We knew we qualified, but we couldn’t really celebrate,“ Silveira told CBS News‘ Jamie Yuccas.
