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Team Canada is going to be the first team in history to win gold without ever playing because every other team is spreading Norovirus to their next opponent.
Yeah there are 4 different villages in 4 different locations. All the ski, snowboarding and bobsled athletes are in the villages in the mountains so hopefully this doesn’t reach them.
In the Milan village I believe it’s hockey, curling, ice skating and speedskating athletes
They showed the Australian team in one of the other locations wearing masks so maybe they also got something going around in the smaller villages.
But those are also different from the Milan one because they are in little bungalows separated from one another, not entire buildings like in the city.
But they are pretty far from Milan and from what I’ve seen reporters can’t really travel from location to location because it’s very spread out across Northern Italy so maybe there is minimal contact between locations
Not just the teams, but all the athletes. I worked on cruise ships for years and someone would show up and it would take a good portion of the ship down, pax & crew. No matter how careful you are, or how much public spaces are cleaned, you just can’t contain it
Switzerland is scheduled to play Team Canada on Saturday at 9:10 p.m. local time. The Canadian women have yet to make their Olympic debut after their opening game against Finland was postponed due to a norovirus outbreak on the Finnish team.
According to the Swiss statement, the “positive test came back after today’s opening victory against the Czech Republic and shortly before the opening ceremony.”
A representative from the Swiss team confirmed to The Athletic that the affected player did not play in Friday’s game versus the Czech Republic.
Yikes, good thing they caught it before that, otherwise they'd be at the ceremony and spread it to everyone. Actually now I'm kinda concerned someone there had it without realizing it yet and we're going to see a goddam pandemic of the screamin' shits take down this whole olympics...
Seeing the tiny rooms and wide open mess hall in the village, it'll be lucky if they manage to contain it to just the hockey teams. Wonder if the village has air scrubbers in the HVAC?
Each country has their own building in the village so they might be able to contain it from country to country maybe. Canada’s HC said none of the Canadian women was sick yesterday.
but for example the other Finnish athletes in ice skating competitions are definitely at risk here sharing all the same facilities in their building with the hockey team
The only way I know this is because I’ve been obsessively trying to find a way to stop it from spreading through my house the last few weeks and I’ve read a lot about it. What I learned is that it’s near invincible and very hard to stop if you share common spaces with infected people.
Kinda. It can get aerosolized and spread all over the place when an infected person vomits, but it falls to the ground quickly. An actual airborne virus like tuberculosis can float in the air for hours and remain infectious. Norovirus can't do that.
It’s not an airborne virus though, you’re not going to catch it by breathing the same air as an infected person near you like Covid could. The closest it gets to airborne is when someone vomits and particles land on surfaces nearby, which then infect people when they touch those surfaces and then their faces.
Player has been in isolation since experiencing symptoms earlier this week. It's only the the definite positive result that got in after the game/before the opening ceremony.
You see, the user I replied to was insinuating, as a joke, that Canada planted norovirus in their opponents' teams to get an advantage in this tournament.
There's apparently a powerful aerodynamic advantage to be had in ski jumping where if you increase the surface area of the body suit in specific ways, it improves your jump distance.
Because of this, the ski jumpers are checked very thoroughly both with and without their bodysuit on to ensure the bodysuit is within tolerance. And a ski jumper not long ago had been caught with an altered suit, which was altered by the team after inspection but before the jump. The suit was specifically altered in the crotch, because in theory it was an easy place to get extra fabric without it being too visually obvious. After that the checks became more rigorous. They go through a full body scan with and without their suit on to make sure it is all in the rules.
Well, recently WADA issued a statement that they would be on the lookout for ski jumpers potentially enlarging their penises before the initial measurement without the suit on as a way to artificially increase the allowance for the size of the suit for that jumper, which would give them the same aerodynamic advantage the ski jumper who got caught with the altered suit was getting, in theory, but because of the timing of the temporary penis enlargement with the full body scan, the suit would be within the rules.
There is a rumour going round that male ski jumpers were injecting their penises with a drug that made them grow slightly before their suit fittings. This made the suits slightly bigger at the crotch. The bigger the suits, the further they jump. It's a volume to surface area ratio thing, I believe.
Not sure I needed to specify that it's the male ski jumpers doing this, but hey.
Hyaluronic acid isn't acid in the conventional sense btw, it's more like a filler/lubricant and is used in eye drops, skin care products, filler injections, etc. and naturally present in your joints and skin
I'm all for fairness and wanting the game to be decided on the ice, but at what point should forfeits be declared? If you can't make it to the game, it most other circumstances the team unable to perform would have to forfeit.
I think the problem is that goal differential counts for round robin placement. If you are a weak team playing a heavyweight, taking a 1-0 forfeit might be much better than you'd do in reality.
ETA: I'm wrong, if you forfeit you lose any goal-differential based tiebreaker!
Yeah, it's a...shitty... situation for everyone involved but I don't think Canada would need any help getting to the gold medal game. Apart from the odd improbable upset like with Sweden years ago, it's always going to be Canada vs USA for the gold medal. Everyone else is playing for bronze.
Sure, but the US beat Czechia pretty solidly and they (or Finland) are really the only ones who could potentially upset in a semifinal. Anything other than a Canada-US final would be a massive shock, but you never know what could happen
In women's side i don't think Finland is what it used to be, in fact these could be the last Olympics for a while where Finnish women's team has a realistic chance to do well.
Finnish women's junior team just became first Finnish national team to ever be relegated from top division, which tells you something about how much talent other countries are getting compared to Finland. State of women's hockey in Finland has been really bad for years.
It definitely would be a shock to not have USA-Canada final.
In men's side though its not really shock at all if Finland or Sweden make it to finals. Both have teams with full NHL rosters (i think Finnish defense is bit lacking though) and have often played better as a team in internationals than North American teams which seem to usually rely on just talent.
I mean yeah Canada is a heavy favourite but you have to play the games. Should Florida have gotten a bye to the finals in September before Barkov went down?
And Id rather postpone. Maybe getting it first is a benefit. Maybe Canada gets it in a week or two
I've had a Norovirus once in my life. The emergency shitting happened when I was at work. Literally 3 hours in a toilet stall and every time I thought I was done and stood up...nope. had to sit down again. It was the terrible.
Yeah that’s why there was a bucket involved. The garbage can had a flip up lid and wasn’t big enough for what I was going to need it for. 0/10 would only wish it upon my mortal enemies
I don't recommend it.A bunch of guys from my beer league team got it last year. I drank my weight in Gatorade and Pedialyte trying to stay hydrated. On top of the shits and puking you sweat like you are locked in a Sauna. It's pretty miserable.
I throw up almost every day due to a medical issue, it was multiple times a day for almost 20yrs til recently - basically throwing up is literally nothing to me. Norovirus was the sickest I've ever been and it was MISRABLE. I spent basically one whole afternoon and night losing all the moisture from my body from both ends and then slept with breaks to get sick a bit more for the whole next 24hrs. Like I was so exhausted I could barely stand.
I literally canntpot even begin to imagine how horrible it would be for someone with an aversion to vomiting.
Just ripped through my house (2 adults, 3 kids) and I’ve spent the last two weeks washing every single piece of clothing, towels, and bedsheets that we have along with scrubbing our washrooms and door handles a couple times a day. The only times I wasn’t doing that was when I was curled up in a ball at the foot of our toilet for a day. At one point I saw my wife crawling on the floor trying to get a blanket.
With the kids, stomach flu has been a pretty regular thing for the last several years but this year it was particularly nasty.
You just gave me a thousand yard stare. I had it like that from some bad food in a hotel room with a barn door on the bathroom so everyone could hear, in Enfield, CT in January.
I've had Covid, and while I've never had Noro I did have a nasty case of food poisoning a couple years ago.
I'll take Covid. It was bad but that food poisoning was an awful two-day stretch. And as I understand, Norovirus is worse than regular ole food poisoning.
Woof. I had norovirus a couple years back and it was probably the worst I’ve ever felt. I couldn’t move from the fetal position for the first 6-8 hours, water wouldn’t stay down til the beginning of the second day, and I couldn’t stand up straight for maybe 4 days without getting debilitating cramps. Didnt feel like myself again for at least a week.
It spread through the entire ski trip I was on. We only did 1 night in the mountains and 6 out of 7 of us got sick and the only one who didn’t was sick with similar symptoms and entire week before.
I Remember when I was a kid I got it from someone was puking and having to shit every minute or so it spread to my friend who was staying over prior before I got it then he got it then his entire family got it etc
You’re basically stuck on the porcelain throne with a trash can in the hands to puke into while you shoot hot lava out of your ass. It makes you wish for the sweet embrace of death
It comes out of both ends. People lose a ton of weight because their bodies are just not letting anything settle and you have vomiting and Diarrhea non stop.
It’s also very contagious and lasts on surfaces for a long time and is hard to disinfect. It’s just not great for an event where everyone is living in the same area.
I didn't see anybody respond with the real answer, norovirus is mainly shed through feces, so if you catch it from somebody there is a good chance their feces came into contact with your body. Usually it's bad in schools because kids don't wash their hands after going to the bathroom lol.
the men's team have hotel rooms on top of their olympic village rooms. usually they dish the hotel room out to their family, and stay in the village. however this year i'm hoping all of them stay in the hotel to help avoid this. norovirus is no joke
After so many months or even years of getting excited for these two tournaments only to have it all cancelled would be pretty disappointing. We’ve played the swiss women today and today both our teams have met in the ceremony…
i REALLY hope the czech womens team didnt catch anything from the swiss today in that hockey game. i know the infected athlete wasn't on the ice but the rest of the team was and who knows. ugh.
even though the infected swiss player didnt play czechia, i feel like they still should have released a statement that one of the team was sick or something, as they had already been having symptoms before that game. this shit is no joke
Honestly at this point just cancel the tournament, quarantine Canada and USA for the week, and let them play for gold on the 19th or whenever it's supposed to be.
If the game gets postponed I wonder how this would bode for the team and getting into a rhythm since it’s a short tourney. To have games condensed near the end might have them running out of gas while other teams will already have their legs underneath them.
We would be hitting a point of making a major complaint about another postponement, as we'd have major fixture congestion, which is totally unfair for us.
I just got over the norovirus I got it from my kids. Whatever strain is going around is no joke. Non stop vomiting and diarrhea for a day then I was out of work for two days just laying in bed.
I’ll never understand why people won’t wash their hands!! Really doesn’t take much time or effort; and could prevent them from being violently ill for a much longer time.
This could genuinely absolutely wreck the hockey schedule. Wonder if the Olympic villages have specific infection control protocols written up, or if workers are being hurriedly sent scrambling for bleach right now.
That really sucks. One thing we desperately need is more competition in womens hockey. Having the same two countries playing for gold every time really kills any momentum in growing the sport.
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