Two athletes COVID-19 positive at Beijing warm-up event


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Beijing (AP) — The organizers of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing in February said two foreign athletes tested positive for COVID-19 at an ongoing test event at the Games. They also expressed sympathy for a Polish luge player who broke his leg at this week’s Olympic Sliding Center in a crash blamed for human error. Hwang Chun, deputy director of the tournament’s Pandemic Prevention Bureau, said the two who tested positive were one of the 1,500 athletes and staff who have been in the country since the test event began in early October. Said he was a person. He...