Winter Olympics 2022 - Nordic combined star Eric Frenzel tests positive as Team Germany hit by wave of Covid-19 cases
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Updated 04/02/2022 at 11:22 GMT
Three medal hopefuls in the Nordic combined have tested positive for Covid-19 including two-time reigning champion Eric Frenzel of Germany. Norway's Jarl Magnus Riiber has also tested positive along with Team Germany's Terence Weber. Germany's figure skating team has taken a blow too after Nolan Seegert tested positive.
German athlet Eric Frenzel
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Two-time Nordic combined gold medallist Eric Frenzel has tested positive for Covid-19 as Team Germany are hit by a wave of cases.
Frenzel won gold in the normal hill event at both the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics and must now produce two negative Covid-19 tests in order to leave isolation. He also helped Germany win the team relay in 2018.
Nordic combined team-mate and compatriot Terence Weber has also tested positive, while German figure skater Nolan Seegert is also in isolation.
The Nordic combined event now has three of its medal hopefuls in isolation after Norway's Karl Magnus Riiber tested positive on Thursday.
And Riiber was in dismay over the impact it could have on their competitions, given training for his event is set to begin on Sunday.
"We've heard the same rumours too, it's pretty sick," he said. "That all the best are down with corona.
"Then those things may come from (the last World Cup meet in) Seefeld, as that is where it comes from. This is a hopeless situation. The fact that there was so much infection before departure they should have moved the competitions all the way to the end of the Olympics so that the top has time to take part in anything. It should have been cancelled.
"It's a pain in the neck that the Olympics are happening now."
The Games have grappled with a wave of Covid-19 case inside the 'closed loop'. Athletes that test positive must self-isolate before returning to the Olympic village after returning two negative tests.
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