Beijing, Feb 8, Sergey Pogrebnyak Athletes with positive coronavirus test results it would be right to allow them to compete at the Beijing Olympics, Russian snowboarder Sofia Nadyrshina told reporters. The world champion in parallel slalom and the silver medalist of the world championship in parallel giant slalom Nadyrshina lost 0.03 seconds to the representative of the Netherlands Michelle Dekker in the 1/8 final race. The Russian woman flew to Beijing only the night before, waiting for negative test results for coronavirus. “Yes, this is my mistake, there’s not much to add here. At first, I really was in the lead, but then one, another mistake went. Of course, I’m upset. I always want to achieve victories. «I arrived in Beijing yesterday evening, there was no time to adapt. It was hard to watch everyone skating, preparing for the Games, and you are sitting in four walls. But as it turned out, it happened. I know that I let everyone down. It's so hard on me expected, but I could not live up to expectations. Positive tests for coronavirus? Is it wrong that such people are closed. It would be right to allow athletes with positive tests to compete,» Nadyrshina said.
