After multiple complaints of inadequate food and 'unreasonable' living conditions in the Olympics' quarantine hotels, an International Olympic Committee official vowed today to improve conditions.
Athletes and their teams have also criticized the lack of transparency and inconsistent rules regarding who must stay at the quarantine hotels.“We have found ourselves once in a situation where we’re not necessarily meeting the conditions that we expected,” Christian Dubi, an IOC executive director, said at a briefing Sunday, per the Post.
“It is addressed, and it’s very unfortunate that it affected an athlete. It’s been addressed," he added.
"We know that he's fully healthy and ready to go and that's why we think that China, for some reason, they won't respect his human rights and that's not a great situation," Jalonen told reporters over a zoom call Sunday, per Reuters. Anttila has been kept in COVID-19 isolation after testing positive for the virus 18 days ago, despite no longer being infectious, per Reuters.
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