Beijing, February 8, Andrey Senchenko. Forward of the Russian women's Olympic ice hockey team Polina Bolgareva contracted the coronavirus, said the head coach of the Russians Yevgeny Bobariko. In the current draw of the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, the hockey player played three matches and scored three goals.
"Everyone witnessed how we played with Canada yesterday in masks and took off them after the second period, when they received the results of tests for coronavirus. All of them were negative. We arrived at the Olympic village after the match with Canada and found out that Polina tested positive for coronavirus. I don't know how it happens. Her morning test, which initially gave a negative result, suddenly turned out to be positive,” Bobariko said.
On February 8, the Russian team will play the final match in the group stage of the women's Olympic tournament and play with the Finnish team.