straining this country s zero covid strategy. precautions are high at olympic venues. so, i m getting off a dedicated media bus here, just to show you that we re part of a, kind of, media bubble, quite separate from the athletes bubble. here you have to have your facemask on, and this is the media hotel. so i come up here, this is checking my temperature. that says i m 0k. these are the various health checks and some hand sanitiser. and we re in. we can only talk to the athletes remotely. we re told there s been a lot of covid testing. just had to do pcr tests on arrival, then on arriving at the hotel and every day from there onwards. but if that s what we have to do to not quarantine, then so be it. the games will be held in a freezing, mostly dry area. a mountain of snowmaking is required. but this can make for quick dynamic runs.
just had to do pcr tests on arrival, then on arriving at the hotel and every day from there onwards. but if that s what we have to do to not quarantine, then so be it. the games will be held in a freezing, mostly dry area. a mountain of snowmaking is required. but this can make for quick dynamic runs. speed, ithink, will be key, and that s the difficult bit. so yeah, it ll be challenging, for sure, to try and get the most out of the track, anyway the athletes we spoke to said these sites will make for high quality competition.
media bus here, just to show you that we re part of a, kind of, media bubble, quite separate from the athletes bubble. here you have to have your facemask on, and this is the media hotel. so i come up here, this is checking my temperature. that says i m 0k. these are the various health checks and some hand sanitiser. and we re in. we can only talk to the athletes remotely. we re told there s been a lot of covid testing. just had to do pcr tests on arrival, then on arriving at the hotel and every day from there onwards. but if that s what we have to do to not quarantine, then so be it. the games will be held in a freezing, mostly dry area. a mountain of snowmaking is required. but this can make for quick dynamic runs. speed, ithink, will be key, and that s the difficult bit.
these are the various health checks and some hand sanitiser. and we re in. we can only talk to the athletes remotely. we re told there s been a lot of covid testing. just had to do pcr tests on arrival, then on arriving at the hotel and every day from there onwards. but if that s what we have to do to not quarantine, then so be it. the games will be held in a freezing, mostly dry area. a mountain of snowmaking is required. but this can make for quick dynamic runs. speed, ithink, will be key, and that s the difficult bit. so yeah, it ll be challenging, for sure, to try and get the most out of the track, anyway the athletes we spoke to said these sites will make for high quality competition. and the drive to win in february is already taking its toll. in the mountains outside beijing, the test events are infull swing.
so i come up here, this is checking my temperature. that says i m 0k. these are the various health checks and some hand sanitiser. we can only talk to the athletes remotely. we re told there s been a lot of covid testing. just had to do pcr tests on arrival, then on arriving to the hotel and every day from there onwards. if that s what we have to do to not quarantine, then so be it. the games will be held in a freezing, mostly dry area. a mountain of snowmaking is required. but this can make for quick dynamic runs. speed and everything is going to be key, and that s the difficult bit. so, it s going to be challenging for sure to try and get the most out of the track, anyway.