A year from Beijing Olympics, coronavirus wreaks havoc with winter sports schedules
Rick Maese, The Washington Post
Jan. 12, 2021
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When the coronavirus brought the Olympic sports world to a grinding halt this past March, the top winter sports athletes had mostly finished competing for the year. A handful of events were canceled, but the early days of the pandemic largely felt like a bullet dodged for the skiers, skaters and snowboarders training for the 2022 Olympics in Beijing.
But weeks and months passed, and it soon became clear the virus that ruined spring and summer still would be raging as the temperatures dropped. And now, just 13 months out from the Beijing Games, Olympic officials are monitoring the escalating covid numbers here and in Europe. On Monday this week s Alpine skiing World Cup event in Switzerland was canceled because of the worsening conditions in the region.