MOSCOW, Jan 26 Head of the Russian Ski Racing Federation (FLGR) Elena Vyalbe believes that the Beijing Olympics should have been postponed for a year in the hope of improving the situation with coronavirus infection, but it is already too late. The Olympics will be held from February 4 to 20. Russian biathlon, speed skating, women's ice hockey and short track teams flew to Beijing on Wednesday. year in the hope of improving the situation with coronavirus, but of course it is too late. Imagine that you are as unlucky as two Norwegian skiers,» TV2 quotes Vyalbe. On Wednesday, it became known that Norwegian skiers Heidi Veng and Anna Kjersti Kalvo received positive test results for coronavirus. Athletes were included in the national women's cross-country skiing team for the Olympic Games. On Sunday, the coach of the Norwegian cross-country skiing team Arild Monsen passed a positive test for coronavirus, the Russians stayed at the training camp in Italy in the same hotel as the Norwegian national team.
