Post by Admin on Mar 5, 2020 6:45:50 GMT
The reality is that admission to the competition is now not only athletes. If you intend to work at any position in the International Skating Union tournaments, you need to get accreditation. In "peace" time, for this it is enough to present a press card in the presence of a pre-approved application. In the "military" (and how else to call the current situation with the coronavirus), you first need to prove your own safety for yourself and others.
A mobile filter has been deployed directly in the accreditation center in the Tondiraba Arena in Tallinn: the body temperature is measured with a non-contact thermometer, and a questionnaire is issued with the following questions:
Have you recently visited areas of high epidemiological status?
Have you contacted someone who has recently visited areas of high epidemiological status?
Do you have any of the following symptoms: cough, sore throat, runny nose, shortness of breath?
Have you had a fever recently?
The precautions of the organizers do not seem far-fetched. Firstly, the second case of coronavirus has already been recorded in Estonia. Secondly, the specifics of competitions at the level of the World Cup implies an atmosphere of increased danger. Athletes, coaches and functionaries from different countries come to one place - China, Italy, USA, Canada, Russia, Japan and others. All of them make a long journey thousands of kilometers from airport to airport in order to find themselves in a crowded place - ideal conditions for the exchange of infections and the spread of the virus.
In the arena, by the way, you will hardly meet masked people, unlike the airport. And, of course, no one changes them every two hours. But the organizers stocked up antibacterial hand gels and put them everywhere - in the press center next to the pen that a hundred people had touched in a day, in the halls between the stands, in the cafeteria and even in the press center.
However, to name the Tondiraba arena at this championship a place of mass crowds can only be sarcastically, and not only the coronavirus is to blame. The low interest of the audience in the junior competitions is not news, otherwise it happens only in Russia and Japan. Even half a stadium didn’t even look at Alexander Trusov punching the quadruple jumps in Zagreb a year ago. In Tallinn, the scenario is repeated. At the weekend, adults working on weekdays can still catch up with the girls, but this will not save the overall picture of the occupancy of the hall.
And in vain. If you really want to better understand how figure skating works, come see the juniors. There are practically no barriers between the audience and the main characters. Here, Kamila Valieva flexes her boxing with an elastic band (fulfills twist) near a popcorn shop, at the exit to the training arena, Brian Orser is sadly waiting for Ekaterina Kurakova, and on the stairs you can face Eteri Tutberidze nose to nose. Alice Lew, the American hope, is waiting for her bus to the hotel on the street - you cannot distinguish her from the majority of the children who came here to Tondirabu for mass skating.
While the dancers repeat their step path in one corner of the hall, in the other, Pyotr Gumennik approaches the hundredth jump on a skipping rope. Can you imagine? Like in a nature reserve where birds do not sit in cages, but fly freely in their natural habitat.
A mobile filter has been deployed directly in the accreditation center in the Tondiraba Arena in Tallinn: the body temperature is measured with a non-contact thermometer, and a questionnaire is issued with the following questions:
Have you recently visited areas of high epidemiological status?
Have you contacted someone who has recently visited areas of high epidemiological status?
Do you have any of the following symptoms: cough, sore throat, runny nose, shortness of breath?
Have you had a fever recently?
The precautions of the organizers do not seem far-fetched. Firstly, the second case of coronavirus has already been recorded in Estonia. Secondly, the specifics of competitions at the level of the World Cup implies an atmosphere of increased danger. Athletes, coaches and functionaries from different countries come to one place - China, Italy, USA, Canada, Russia, Japan and others. All of them make a long journey thousands of kilometers from airport to airport in order to find themselves in a crowded place - ideal conditions for the exchange of infections and the spread of the virus.
In the arena, by the way, you will hardly meet masked people, unlike the airport. And, of course, no one changes them every two hours. But the organizers stocked up antibacterial hand gels and put them everywhere - in the press center next to the pen that a hundred people had touched in a day, in the halls between the stands, in the cafeteria and even in the press center.
However, to name the Tondiraba arena at this championship a place of mass crowds can only be sarcastically, and not only the coronavirus is to blame. The low interest of the audience in the junior competitions is not news, otherwise it happens only in Russia and Japan. Even half a stadium didn’t even look at Alexander Trusov punching the quadruple jumps in Zagreb a year ago. In Tallinn, the scenario is repeated. At the weekend, adults working on weekdays can still catch up with the girls, but this will not save the overall picture of the occupancy of the hall.
And in vain. If you really want to better understand how figure skating works, come see the juniors. There are practically no barriers between the audience and the main characters. Here, Kamila Valieva flexes her boxing with an elastic band (fulfills twist) near a popcorn shop, at the exit to the training arena, Brian Orser is sadly waiting for Ekaterina Kurakova, and on the stairs you can face Eteri Tutberidze nose to nose. Alice Lew, the American hope, is waiting for her bus to the hotel on the street - you cannot distinguish her from the majority of the children who came here to Tondirabu for mass skating.
While the dancers repeat their step path in one corner of the hall, in the other, Pyotr Gumennik approaches the hundredth jump on a skipping rope. Can you imagine? Like in a nature reserve where birds do not sit in cages, but fly freely in their natural habitat.