Winter Olympics: unvaccinated snowboarder Patrizia Kummer stays positive in Beijing quarantine
- The 2014 Olympic parallel giant slalom champion is only athlete qualified for Games who is known to be serving three-week quarantine
- ‘My big advantage is that I won’t suffer from jet lag,” the Swiss 34-year-old says
Swiss snowboarder Patrizia Kummer is serving her time in quarantine as she prepares to compete at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics unvaccinated for Covid-19.
The 2014 Olympic parallel giant slalom champion and 2012, 2013 and 2014 World Cup winner in parallel is completing three weeks of quarantine in the Chinese capital and will be able to resume training on the slopes only five days before her event.
“My big advantage is that I won’t suffer from jet lag,” she told a video conference.
The 34-year-old is, for the moment, the only athlete qualified for the Games who is known to be serving the three-week quarantine.
Kummer knew that her path to the parallel giant slalom at the Olympic Games, scheduled for February 8, would be steeper and more complicated than that of her rivals.