‘I Cry Every Day’: Olympic Athletes Expose Conditions At Beijing’s Quarantine Hotels

Athletes that screened positive for COVID-19 at the Winter Olympics just had it with Beijing's quarantine hotels. Since Jan. 23, upwards of 350 Olympic athletes have screened positive for COVID-19 after landing in China's capital. Athletes must be symptom-free and produce two negative tests 24 hours apart to be released from confinement.

“My stomach hurts, I’m very pale, and I have huge black circles around my eyes. I want all this to end. I cry every day. I’m very tired,” Valeria Vasnetsova, a Russian biathlon competitor, posted on Instagram from one of the hotels.

A dish of plain pasta, orange sauce, scorched beef on a bone, a few potatoes, and no vegetables is shown in a photo she shared on Feb. 3. She said that it was her “breakfast, lunch, and dinner for five days.”

Vasnetsova said that she had been hungry because eating most of the meal was "impossible," and that she was living on very tiny bites of pasta.

“Today I ate all the fat they serve instead of meat becau...

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