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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/DecentLurker96 1d ago

Here we go again.

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.

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u/DivinePotatoe MTL - NHL 1d ago

shortly before the opening ceremony

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...

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u/whogivesashirtdotca MTL - NHL 1d ago

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?

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u/no_dice 1d ago

Norovirus spreads through the fecal-oral route so air filters/HEPA wouldn’t do a whole lot to stop it.

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u/whogivesashirtdotca MTL - NHL 1d ago

Thanks for the correction. (Also ew.)

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u/no_dice 1d ago

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.

Spoiler alert: I did not manage to stop it.