FILE PHOTO: Figure Skating – ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating – NHK Trophy – Yoyogi National Stadium 1st Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan – November 12, 2021 Germany’s Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nolan Seegert in action during the pairs short program REUTERS/Issei Kato
February 2, 2022
BEIJING (Reuters) – German figure skater Nolan Seegert’s participation at the Beijing Games is in doubt after he tested positive for COVID-19, the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) said on Wednesday.
Seegert, who competes in pairs with Minerva Fabienne Hase, does not have any symptoms and is isolating in a hotel room.
“There is currently a confirmed so-called close contact, also in the figure skating team,” DOSB said in a statement.
“The athlete may be released from quarantine if there are two consecutive negative tests with a 24 hour interval. Those affected are tested twice a day.”
Many athletes have been ruled out of the Feb. 4-20 Games after testing positive on arrival at the airport while others who are asymptomatic are isolating.
(Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
