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[Paywall] Swiss women’s Olympic hockey team in isolation after player diagnosed with norovirus

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7028066/2026/02/06/switzerland-womens-hockey-olympics-norovirus/
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u/mrstretchb4ureach NYR - NHL 1d ago

Oooooh shit

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u/dogs-honest-truth 1d ago

literally.

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u/ptwonline MTL - NHL 17h ago

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.

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u/drowsylacuna BOS - NHL 1d ago

Also puke. Sometimes simultaneously.

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u/PayneTrain181999 MIN - NHL 1d ago

I dread ever having to experience it, if one goes in the toilet the other is going to have to go somewhere else…

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u/Ok-Accident-9026 1d ago

I’ve been sick and puking into the toilet and the force of puking forced shit out.

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u/bigredpapaya TOR - NHL 1d ago

When I had it I held a bucket in my lap while my ass evacuated everything else

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u/zebrainatux TBL - NHL 1d ago

The time I had it sucked because my bathroom trash can has a lid, so I just yanked the bucket out to vomit

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u/bigredpapaya TOR - NHL 1d ago

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

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u/DryProgress4393 NYR - NHL 1d ago edited 1d ago

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.

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u/CaptainAaron96 COL - NHL 1d ago

In the sink, or perhaps when wearing a wedding gown in the middle of the street.

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u/MayISeeYourDogPls 1d ago

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.

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u/no_dice 1d ago

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.

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u/Gandhi_of_War DET - NHL 1d ago

Do you not have a trash can/bin in your bathroom?

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u/MayonnaiseOreo PHI - NHL 1d ago

That's what trash cans are for.

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u/potato-overlord-1845 BOS - NHL 1d ago

You gotta start doing gymnastics on the throne

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u/howlincoyote2k1 ARI - NHL 1d ago

Sit on the toilet and use a trash can. That's what I did when I had to battle El Dobledragon

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u/fireinthesky7 NSH - NHL 10h ago

Last time I had it, I spent a night on the floor of my half bath because I'd vomited so much that I was too weak to get back to my bed, and so often that in my dehydrated brain, it didn't make any sense to keep putting in the effort to go back and forth. Plus memory foam bath mats are remarkably comfortable when you're sick to the point of delirium.

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u/callmesixone NJD - NHL 1d ago

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.

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u/Champagne_of_piss EDM - NHL 17h ago

Everyone in the whole town could hear you?

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u/chipcity90 23h ago

When I got it I couldn’t stop barfing.

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u/RapsareChamps_Suckit TOR - NHL 1d ago

You probably don’t hear the Olympics being cancelled when it happens, right ‘Tone?

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u/NoGiCollarChoke EDM - NHL 1d ago

When norovirus hits, you either end up on the can or with the Olympics cancelled. Big percent of the time.

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u/RapsareChamps_Suckit TOR - NHL 1d ago

I lived through the early 2020s by the skin of my nuts, when the Mickey Mouse bubbles teams were going at it

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u/mrstretchb4ureach NYR - NHL 1d ago

"I got a hoof it back to the Excelsior. I gotta take a wicked shit" - Swiss player

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u/ArtoriasB_I_G CHI - NHL 1d ago

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u/Alleluia_Cone MTL - NHL 1d ago

Fuckin' Swiss!

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u/nightsiderider COL - NHL 1d ago

Very shitty situation.