The 29-year-old is in an isolation hotel and is symptom-free, the German Olympic Sports Confederation announced on Wednesday.
8th place at the European Championships
At the European Championships in Tallinn, Seegert and his partner Minerva Hase provided the best result for the Germans in eighth place. Afterwards he said in the podcast of the Berlin Olympic Base and the Berliner Morgenpost: “We’re trying to get to China without Corona.”
Seegert/Haase wanted to start in the couples’ short program in the team event on Friday. In addition, Seegert and Hase are registered for the pair skating competition on February 18th and 19th. You had prepared for the Olympics in Russia.
Anyone who contracted the virus at the Beijing Olympics will be isolated in a specially designated hotel. Only after two negative PCR tests at least 24 hours apart can those affected leave before the end of ten days. After this period, only a negative PCR test is required.
“Overall, the balance sheet is very pleasing”
“We said before that we would have difficulties, that the difficulty would be to let the athletes fly from Germany to Beijing without a virus. We actually have a very small problem here thanks to the perfect protective measures taken by the individual associations.”Chef de Mission Dirk Schimmelpfennig had previously said and referred to the two cases so far. “We had expected that. All in all, one has to say that the balance sheet with a lot of people who arrive negative, who remain negative after one, two, three days and therefore have a huge chance of being virus-free in the bladder, is very gratifying.”
The Olympic makers gave the total number of positive tests as 232 on Wednesday. Of these, 136 infections were found during controls at the airport, 96 within the so-called closed circuit for all those involved in the Olympics.