Jan 22 (Reuters) – Women’s ice hockey superpowers Canada and the United States have had similar preparations for the Beijing Olympics but when it comes to COVID-19, they are taking very different approaches.
While Canadian players are is cloistered in a bubble in Calgary, their American counterparts are going about their daily lives in a business-as-usual manner with no added precautions beyond the normal social-distancing, mask wearing and assessing individual threat levels.
“We’re not in a bubble,” veteran U.S. forward Hilary Knight, who will be playing in her fourth Olympics, told Reuters.
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“We do the best we can to kind of simulate a hybrid bubble but by no means are we in a sort of sealed environment that would totally mitigate bringing the possibility of COVID to our environment.
“It is a challenging time right now.”
In contrast, Canadian players moved into a bubble in mid-January and will remain in one until leaving for…
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