A case of false positivity? For Chiara Mair, excluded from the parallel of Lech, it seems so ...

The Austrian slalom rider can already resume training: after a positive test, two negatives arrived. Mitter: "A pity, but it is right to respect the decisions of the authorities".

Friday 27 November 2020 3 minutes reading time

After Sweden excluded from Levi's two slalom due to the positivity of only one technician, the coach in charge of the women's team Christian Thoma (with the girls all negative in the 4 tests carried out), and the series of Covid cases outside the "race bubble ”, From Kilde to Moelgg, passing through the Swiss and Marco Schwarz, the white circus is dealing with a probable case of false positive. It would be that of Chiara Mair, who in extremis had to renounce participation in the parallel of Lech / Zuers: positive at a first buffer, the Tyrolean slalomist (protagonist of two good tests in Levi, with an 8th and an 11th place) is then it was negative for the next two and therefore authorized to train again. “It is a pity that he could not compete in parallel - declared the sports director of the women's sector of the OESV, Christian Mitter - but it is right to follow the provisions of the health authorities. Now Chiara will be able to prepare herself for the next objectives ”. The management of the very delicate Covid situation in the competitive field is on the table of the FIS, given that even yesterday in Lech there was a meeting on the subject, considering that there is no mobile reference laboratory, the same pre-race tests are of a different nature , from molecular to serological. Just as the decision on team isolation and quarantine, which Austria did not have to observe on the occasion of Mair's first positivity (already in the "bubble"), remains an open question, albeit always left to the local health authorities .

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