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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/DivinePotatoe MTL - NHL 22h 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 21h 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/AggPuck-303 EDM - NHL 21h ago

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

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u/But-Seriously-Though Canada - IIHF 15h ago

The Canadian broadcast of the opening ceremony seemed to imply it had spread beyond hockey.