2022 Winter Olympics - Beijing, China - February 4-20 - mainly figure skating news

[fred]

I hope he can get there in time. Good Health to all the teams and officials!

[Elizabeth]

And here is Danielle Earl at the Opening Ceremonies - her 2nd.

[Elizabeth]

And here are members of our figure skating team in their Opening Ceremony outfits

[kittykins]

From Twitter this morning:

Skate Canada officials say Keegan Messing has passed two covid tests. Has to pass two more before he can fly to Beijing. Finding him a flight that goes through one of the required four global hubs also a nightmare.

He is NOT on a plane yet but they remain hopeful.

I've read they are going to try to get him on a plane tomorrow. Perhaps that's overly optimistic if he still has to pass two more COVID tests.

[Elizabeth]

From Twitter this morning:

Skate Canada officials say Keegan Messing has passed two covid tests. Has to pass two more before he can fly to Beijing. Finding him a flight that goes through one of the required four global hubs also a nightmare.

He is NOT on a plane yet but they remain hopeful.

I've read they are going to try to get him on a plane tomorrow. Perhaps that's overly optimistic if he still has to pass two more COVID tests.

I believe that some of the Canadian curlers may be leaving on that time frame - the testing has to be done within a specific # of hours prior to flight and then again on arrival. Keeping my fingers crossed for Keegan!

[Elizabeth]

An update on Keegan's "Olympic adventure" indicates that, with an additional negative test (in Montreal!) he could arrive just in time to compete in the Men's individual event!

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/wint ... -1.6339773

[kittykins]

Thanks for the update! Whew, what a ride!!

[Elizabeth]

From CBC Sports' Devin Heroux via Twitter:

BREAKING

Canadian figure skater Keegan Messing has passed his fourth test in Montreal and is en route to Beijing.

He arrives tomorrow morning, in time for the men's program.

According to sports reporter Dan Barnes via Twitter:

Keegan Messing has passed his fourth and final PCR test for COVID 19 and is flying from Montreal through Milan to Beijing and will be on the ground on Feb 7. He competes in the mens short program on Feb. 8

[kittykins]

From CBC Sports' Devin Heroux via Twitter:

BREAKING

Canadian figure skater Keegan Messing has passed his fourth test in Montreal and is en route to Beijing.

He arrives tomorrow morning, in time for the men's program.

According to sports reporter Dan Barnes via Twitter:

Keegan Messing has passed his fourth and final PCR test for COVID 19 and is flying from Montreal through Milan to Beijing and will be on the ground on Feb 7. He competes in the mens short program on Feb. 8

YAY!!! Goooo Keegan!

[Elizabeth]

PJ Kwong is now posting a blog on behalf of Skate Ontario - the first page is here: https://skateontario.org/2022olympics/

PJ is in Beijing doing a job she has done at many events around the world and she has been adding updates on the competition.

Check it out.

Also PJ and her 2 partners (Mazin Thomas & Charlene Bailey) continue to do their 3Turn3 video on behalf of Skate Ontario interviews every week. They are live, generally on Fridays @ 10 a.m. ET, but can be watched later on YouTube (and other platforms) - this past Friday they talked to Carol Lane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWM8kevNJPg; coming up on Friday Feb. 11th it will be Kurt Browning.

[kittykins]

I'm very glad to hear that Keegan arrived in China about 2 hours ago! Whew, that was very close for comfort!

[Elizabeth]

I'm very glad to hear that Keegan arrived in China about 2 hours ago! Whew, that was very close for comfort!

Keegan AND his skates arrived

[kittykins]

I'm very glad to hear that Keegan arrived in China about 2 hours ago! Whew, that was very close for comfort!

Keegan AND his skates arrived

Poor Keegan and his skates going missing all the time...travel must be so stressful for skaters. He sure has a good attitude though. He's very strong mentally, sort of like Elvis Stojko in my opinion. It leads to him going with the flow and consistent performances.