Russian hockey player Markova will miss the Olympics due to coronavirus

MOSCOW, February 2 Russian hockey player Ilona Markova said she would miss the Winter Olympics 2022 games in Beijing due to coronavirus infection. Earlier, the press service of the Russian Hockey Federation (FHR) reported that Markova, Daria Gredzen, Anna Shibanova, Polina Luchnikova and Valeria Merkusheva did not fly with the team to Beijing. «I did not go to the Olympics because of a positive test for COVID-19. How was it? My team and I have been training in Novogorsk for two weeks. We were preparing to leave. He was the other day. Having received numerous negative tests, I was sure that I'm ready to go! And that everything is already over, because I am in isolation at the base, where infection with this virus is excluded. About the conditions. Mask regime at the base, quarantine upon arrival for one day, food separate from everyone, rooms for two people, twice I went to the UMO. And, in principle, everything. Positive test, past O olympiads. After all, in order to fly to Beijing, I must have four negative tests before departure,» the hockey player wrote on Instagram. Markova added that she is currently on the mend. The athlete admitted that infection with the coronavirus before the Olympic Games was a blow to her.