2022 Beijing Olympics – Figure Skating – Team Event – Men Single Skating – Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing, China – February 6, 2022. Vincent Zhou of the United States in action. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
February 7, 2022
BEIJING (Reuters) -American figure skater Vincent Zhou said on Monday he has withdrawn from the Beijing Olympics ahead of this week’s men’s singles competition after testing positive for COVID-19.
A tearful Zhou, who finished sixth at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games and beat triple world champion Nathan Chen for the gold medal at the Skate America Grand Prix in October, delivered the news in a five-minute Instagram video.
“I have tested positive for COVID-19 and unfortunately I will have to withdraw from the individual event starting tomorrow,” Zhou said.
(Reporting by Chang-Ran Kim, Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber,Hritika Sharma and Frank Pingue; Editing by Himani Sarkar and Peter Rutherford)
