hckošice 13,258 Posted January 28, 2022 #751 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Teresa Stadlober (Cross-Country Skiing), Katharina Galhuber (Alpine Skiing) and Katrin Beierl (Bobsleigh) did not fly on Friday with the Austrian team to Beijing due to questionable results of last PCR tests. Ted 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted January 28, 2022 #752 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Keep in mind that teams are mostly just preparing to leave at this point. This will be just the tip of an iceberg in terms of athletes testing positive. Ted 1 #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vic Liu 1,592 Posted January 28, 2022 #753 Share Posted January 28, 2022 14 minutes ago, Vic Liu said: Political leaders and Royal family members who will attend Beijing 2022 Olympics Asia: Cambodia King Sihamoni Singapore President Halimah Kazakhstan President Tokayev Kyrgyzstan President Japarov Tajikistan President Rahmon Turkmenistan President Berdymuhamedov Uzbekistan President Mirziyoyev Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman Qatar Emir Tamim UAE Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed Mongolia Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan South Korea National Assembly Speaker Park Byeong-seug Thailand Princess Sirindhorn Europe: Russia President Putin Poland President Duda Serbia President Vucic Luxembourg Grand Duke Henri Monaco Prince Albert II Bosnia and Herzegovina Chairman of the Council of Minister Tegeltija Azerbaijan Deputy Prime Minister Ahmadov America: Argentina President Fernandez Ecuador President Lasso Africa: Egypt President Sisi Oceania: Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Marape International Organization: IOC President Bach (Germany, Olympic Champion 1976, Fencing) UN Secretary General Guterres (Portugal) UN General Assembly President Shahid (Maldives) WHO Director General Tedros (Ethiopia) World Intellectual Property Organization Director General Daren Tang (Singapore) New Development Bank President Troyjo (Brazil) Shanghai Cooperation Organization Secretary General Zhang Ming (China) I am pretty sure some other nations will send ministers or ambassador/consul in China but the list is not yet released by Chinese authority so I don't have the source now. opruh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,258 Posted January 28, 2022 #754 Share Posted January 28, 2022 TV released informations about its Beijing 2022 project. Our public TV will send 6 commentators and 2 experts/co-commentators to the games (Veronika Velez-Zuzulová for the Alpine Skiing events and Boris Valábik for the Ice Hockey matches) and 3 TV shots reporters who will mainly follow slovak athletes. They will start live coverage daily on the RTVS sport channel RTVS:Šport from 2 or 3 AM and will end around 16:00, then will imediately follow the Bratislava Olympic studio with replays and highlights from the day. At 20:00 every day our TV will present a hour general Summary of the day and then followed by several documentaries about our former participants, nowadays athletes. Other TV Shows like Citronáda (funny talk show about hockey but not only about it presented by our former world champion and now TV guest celebrity Richard Lintner) and other highlights and replays from the day until the new days coverage starts again. The main live program broadcast will be obviously aimed for finals and slovak athletes competitions The slovak public radio will send 2 reporters who will inform on a regular basis about the news and results from the Olympics, from 4:30AM a general 30 minutes program and from 18:30 a complete summary of the day. All SVK hockey matches will be obviously broadcasted live also in our public radio. From today the RTVS will also release its official web platform https://www.rtvs.sk/olympiada-beijing-2022/slovaci-v-pekingu with all general informations about our athletes, the commplete schedule, TV svhedule etc... Everything what will be in our TV will be also streamed live on the web in full HD maestro 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 3,595 Posted January 28, 2022 #755 Share Posted January 28, 2022 1 hour ago, dcro said: Keep in mind that teams are mostly just preparing to leave at this point. This will be just the tip of an iceberg in terms of athletes testing positive. Natalia Czerwonka & Magdalena Czyszczon (speed skating) tested positive after arriving in Beijing (no sympthoms). Also two biathlon coaches tested positive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted 85 Posted January 28, 2022 #756 Share Posted January 28, 2022 1 hour ago, Ted said: According to insidethegames.biz, German officials are concerned about the validity of Chinese PCR tests. Michael Hölz (President of the German snowboarding association) has stated that PCR test results -much like anti-doping ones- may easily be manipulated (implying that the Chinese have a long history of tampering with anti-doping tests...). For instance, they may announce a positive PCR test, not allow an athlete to compete in an event and then simply apologize by saying it was actually a false positive. As expected, the Chinese have already refuted this claim. What's your take on this? Canadian Rob Koehler, Director General of an organization called Global Athlete (who used to work for WADA btw) is also very skeptical and has voiced misgivings about the Chinese testing methods and results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,862 Posted January 28, 2022 #757 Share Posted January 28, 2022 2 hours ago, Ted said: According to insidethegames.biz, German officials are concerned about the validity of Chinese PCR tests. Michael Hölz (President of the German snowboarding association) has stated that PCR test results -much like anti-doping ones- may easily be manipulated (implying that the Chinese have a long history of tampering with anti-doping tests...). For instance, they may announce a positive PCR test, not allow an athlete to compete in an event and then simply apologize by saying it was actually a false positive. As expected, the Chinese have already refuted this claim. What's your take on this? Ted 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,242 Posted January 28, 2022 #758 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHSN 3,221 Posted January 28, 2022 #759 Share Posted January 28, 2022 we are getting close to the WOG and I seriously miss @Orangehair43 is he already focusing on Paris 2024 and its cancellation ? PS: I see some users try to be like him but no way. you can never beat this guy. he is my favorite troll Topicmaster1010, mrv86, intoronto and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted January 28, 2022 #760 Share Posted January 28, 2022 5 hours ago, Vic Liu said: Cambodia King Sihamoni Singapore President Halimah Kyrgyzstan President Japarov Tajikistan President Rahmon Turkmenistan President Berdymuhamedov Uzbekistan President Mirziyoyev Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman Qatar Emir Tamim UAE Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed Mongolia Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Thailand Princess Sirindhorn Grand total of 10 athletes between these nations. Many of them 0, including Tajikistan with all those magnificant mountains.... #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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