The Canadian and Russian women's hockey teams were required to wear masks for their preliminary round matchup at the Olympics because of coronavirus concerns. Beijing2022
Julia Marino brought home the silver medal in the women’s snowboard slopestyle competition.BEIJING -- It’s hard enough facing a deep and talented hockey powerhouse such as Canada in normal circumstances. Try doing it wearing a mask, Russian forward Alexandra Vafina joked.
COVID-19, which has the Beijing Games' participants limited to living and competing inside a tightly controlled bubble environment, nearly derailed the on-ice action Monday. Adding to Canada’s concerns were that Russian players were testing positive before and after the team’s 5-0 loss to the United States on Saturday.
In other games, Denmark defeated the Czech Republic 3-2. The win was Denmark’s first in its Winter Games debut, and it keeps the country's chances alive to earn one of Group B’s two remaining quarterfinal berths. Sarah Nurse and Sarah Fillier scored 20 seconds apart to put the Canadians up 2-0 by the 2:29 mark of the first period in a game in which they outshot the Russians 49-12. Nurse and Rebecca Johnston had a goal and an assist each, while Marie-Philip Poulin, Erin Ambrose and Jamie Lee Rattray also scored.
“We had a little laugh about it, like, this is probably a pretty cool story in the long run. You’re going to look back and be able to say, 'I was at the COVID Olympics and we even wore a mask in a game.’”
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