Cyclist Simon Geschke is the first – and so far only – corona case in the German Olympic team. The quarantine makes it difficult for the 35-year-old.
Simon Geschke had imagined his second Olympic Games very differently. Shortly before the men’s road race, in which he should have started, the cyclist tested positive for the corona virus. This made him the first – and so far only – corona case in the German team. So instead of fighting for medals on the bike on the 234-kilometer course on Saturday, Geschke had to go into quarantine.
He now has to spend a maximum of ten days in isolation in a hotel in Tokyo. The 35-year-old is already quite annoyed by it: “You are woken up by a loudspeaker in your room at seven o’clock. Then you have to measure your fever and oxygen saturation. For me it is incomprehensible why it has to be so early when you have to do the whole thing Day has hardly anything to do, “said Geschke of the DPA. “This is half psychiatry, half prison. Although it is more likely to be psychiatry.”
Simon Geschke is the only corona case in the German team to date
The professional cyclist also posted pictures of the meager food served in the official Olympic quarantine hotel on his Twitter account. Boredom in particular worries him: “Absolutely nothing works here.” Hopefully he will not get closer to a prison in his life than during the quarantine, wrote Geschke.
After all: Geschke did not infect any of his teammates. The German cyclists also had to isolate themselves after the positive Corona test, but were all tested negative afterwards and were therefore allowed to compete in their races. However, the German starters had nothing to do with the medal decisions.
Geschke was infected despite a previous vaccination, which is very rare. The doctors of the German team assume that the infection took place before the trip to Japan – possibly at the Tour de France, in which Geschke took part before the games, or when traveling to Tokyo. “It was a big shock. I thought all day that the positive test was a mistake,” Geschke said shortly after the test result in the ZDF interview. His viral load was very low. “I can travel in Europe, including on the tour,” said the native of Berlin. “Everything is a little different in Japan.”
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