US Figure Skater Barred From Olympics Closing Ceremony Over COVID-19 Despite 14 Negative Results

U.S. figure skater Vincent Zhou couldn’t join his team at the Winter Olympics closing ceremony on Feb. 20 after being flagged as a COVID-19 close contact, despite testing negative for the disease more than a dozen times. “I won’t be marching in the Closing Ceremony tonight,” Zhou wrote on his Instagram story on Sunday. “Before boarding the bus to the stadium, they flagged me as a COVID ‘close contact’ risk and would not allow me to proceed further.&rdquo...