Vincent Zhou Tests Positive for COVID

[TwinnerA]

It would be nice to get to see Vincent skate one more time on Olympic ice!

 

[CanadianSkaterGuy]

It would be nice to get to see Vincent skate one more time on Olympic ice!

If there was ever a silver (potentially gold) lining to this mess, it’s Zhou getting his Olympic medal during the ceremony.

 

[4everchan]

If there was ever a silver (potentially gold) lining to this mess, it’s Zhou getting his Olympic medal during the ceremony.

not to be a debbie downer but if i read things properly, there might not be a ruling about the team event in time for that... in the never ending thread they mention that they are going to rule about the individual event, not the team event.

 

[CanadianSkaterGuy]

not to be a debbie downer but if i read things properly, there might not be a ruling about the team event in time for that... in the never ending thread they mention that they are going to rule about the individual event, not the team event.

Oh… well that’s ridiculous. When would they award team medals then?

If they let Kamila compete then presumably the team medal ceremony can be held with the standings as they were?

 

[4everchan]

Oh… well that’s ridiculous. When would they award team medals then?

no idea.... but at this point, it is a question of hours (or a couple days) before we find out more

 

[Greengemmonster]

Vincent is a free man!!!!! Saw a post of him being out of isolation and in good spirits!!!

 

[el henry]

There have been some really good articles with good quotes from Vincent:

U.S. Olympic skater Vincent Zhou out of COVID-19 isolation; to skate in gala exhibition - UPI.com

U.S. figure skater Vincent Zhou is out of COVID-19 quarantine and headed to an Olympics gymnast gala.

www.upi.com

They don't let you do competition programs, he wanted to skate his SP, but he will skate "Sign of the Times"

and this,( setting aside my feelings about the author, this is pretty much a normal article and the quotes are nice

Vincent Zhou is finally out of quarantine after missing his event. 'A stroke of bad luck'

Vincent Zhou, stuck in isolation in a hotel room, couldn’t watch as the men’s Olympic figure skating competition went on without him last week.

www.usatoday.com

In isolation after a positive COVID-19 test in a hotel room somewhere in Beijing – he still isn’t exactly sure where he was, other than it was about a 30-minute drive from the Olympic Village – he kept up with the results, but that was all he could do.

"It was too emotionally difficult to actually watch it," Zhou said on a Zoom call with reporters Wednesday after his week-long isolation ended. "Of course I wanted to see how my teammates did. I was extremely happy when both Nathan (Chen, the Olympic gold medalist) and Jason (Brown, who finished sixth) knocked it out of the park.

I wouldn't have watched either.

 

[Alchamei]

Why they don't allow competition programs in the Gala? It is not uncommon for skaters to do it, I remember Yuzuru skating to Parisene Walkwalways in exhibitions.

I thought in exhibiton you skate to whatever you want, don't you?

 

[treblemakerem]

Why they don't allow competition programs in the Gala? It is not uncommon for skaters to do it, I remember Yuzuru skating to Parisene Walkwalways in exhibitions.

I thought in exhibiton you skate to whatever you want, don't you?

I think you’re just not allowed to skate the program from that competition. You can do an old one. It seems like they should make an exception in this case considering Vincent didn’t get to skate it in the competition but oh well.