What is the status of sports in 2022? The Olympics is slated to start Friday Feb 4 and finish on Sunday Feb 20th. We'll all be at home again, but what will there be to watch?
The big news this week was Tennis star Novak Djokovic. His lawyers filed court papers Saturday in his challenge against deportation from Australia. They show the tennis star tested positive for COVID-19 last month and recovered, grounds he used in applying for a medical exemption to the country's strict vaccination rules. But it has since emerged that the Victoria state medical exemption, allowed for people who tested positive for the coronavirus within the last six months, was deemed invalid by the federal border authorities.
And the Olympics? We've known for a short time that the NHL opted out of the 2022 Olympics. Various diplomats will not be there - while it was billed as a boycott, maybe that's now looking like self-preservation.
And athletes are testing positive so won't be able to compete in their finals to get to the Olympics. Such a strange turn of events, given there was so much hype that the athletes want their 'chance to compete'.
Here's what the Canadian Press said yesterday:
"The Beijing Games open in exactly one month, but the competition has already started. The challenge: getting the country's top athletes to China without testing positive for COVID-19, an ominous and invisible threat that few could have seen coming just a few weeks ago.
If an athlete tests positive for COVID-19 in the next month, they must provide three negative PCR tests and then submit that documentation to the Beijing Olympic committee (BOCOG). It's up to BOCOG to clear the athlete to travel to China. All participants are also required to provide two negative PCR tests before boarding their flight to Beijing, within 96 and 72 hours of travel."
Various aspects are covered in the article HERE. Not just athletes themselves, but the cancellation of qualifications is a problem. And then one reads about teams in 'bubbles' to stay safer. Staff for the event are scheduled to report to the Beijing bubble on Tuesday and then have no contact with the outside community.
It would seem that the Olympics Committee and China are determined to win against the Pandemic. With or without athletes there for competition.
Here are some experiments with Filter Forge software - another distortion program. The original is the first picture - in camera multi-exposure of our translucent plastic garbage can in the sun
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