Winter Olympics: Hong Kong skier Audrey King tests positive for Covid-19, undergoing mandatory quarantine in Beijing – ‘I’m feeling fine’
- The 19-year-old tested positive for the coronavirus twice upon landing in Beijing from the team’s training camp in Bosnia
- ‘Close contact’ teammate Adrian Yung and head coach Marko Rudic tested negative but will also be monitored and quarantined
Hong Kong Olympic alpine skier Audrey King has tested positive for Covid-19 upon arrival in Beijing, the Hong Kong Sports Federation and Olympic Committee (SF&OC) said on Monday.
The 19-year-old is undergoing compulsory hotel quarantine where she confirmed she was feeling good. “I have no symptoms and I am feeling fine,” she told the Post.
Should she return a negative test in time, King will still be able to compete in her women’s slalom event scheduled for February 9.
King, men’s skier Adrian Yung Hau-tsuen and Hong Kong head coach Marko Rudic departed their Bosnia pre-Games training camp for Beijing on January 30. Yung and Rudic tested negative but are deemed close contacts. Yung is set to compete in the men’s giant slalom on February 13.
King tested positive for Covid-19 upon landing at the Beijing Capital International Airport after undergoing standard nucleic acid tests the same evening, the SF&OC said. Her second test also returned positive.