Tears of Despair for Three Olympic Athletes Held Against Their Will in Beijing
It was meant to be all about the athletes, but competitors caught up in China’s strict zero-COVID policy say they are are enduring an Olympics from hell.
Four days into full competition at the Beijing Winter Games and complaints are piling up about athletes kept locked up in cockroach-infested isolation hotels, badly fed and starved of information.
A Polish short track speed skater said she was left “crying like crazy” in the back of an ambulance in the early hours of Saturday morning after being told she was being released from isolation—only to be sent back into detention before her event began.