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The two Olympic champion hit by Covid, the communication arrived in the evening from the federation: Games at very high risk for one of the expected protagonists.
Thursday 27 January 2022 2 minutes reading time
Simen Hegstad Krueger tested positive for Covid-19 just over a week after the start of the Chinese Olympics.
This was stated by Oystein Andersen, medical director of the Norwegian national team, after the cross-country skiing team (in training these days on the Alpe di Siusi) urgently called a press conference. “As you know we have another positive within the team. We feared there would be more and unfortunately we have one. It is Simen Hegstad Krueger who took the test today ”.
Krueger is one of the favorites for distance races and one of the gold hopes within the norge squadron. We are talking about the reigning Olympic champion in skiathlon and relay, as well as being silver in charge in the 15 km, medals obtained in the previous Korean review.
The cross-country skier is already isolated and has no symptoms, of course it is not yet clear whether he will be able to recover before the start of the Games to be able to compete. This increases the number of positive members in the reference team of the world fund to four, including the athletes Kalvaa and Weng.
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