Alberta Well being permitted the resumption of video games, the World Curling Federation mentioned in a press release.
- Watch and have interaction with CBC Sports activities’ That Curling Present reside (Sunday 5 p.m. ET) that includes the boys’s curling championship on Twitter, Fb and YouTube. Dr. Bob McCormack, chief medical officer for the curling hub, will probably be amongst Sunday’s visitors.
4 contributors, together with three from non-playoff groups, examined constructive for the virus, however didn’t present signs of the sickness.
An unidentified athlete from a playoff workforce who examined constructive after which unfavorable in a subsequent check was initially barred from competing Sunday, however the WCF reversed course and allowed him on the ice.
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“After intensive session with Alberta Well being the athlete who examined constructive, then unfavorable has been granted permission to play within the playoffs at this time,” the WCF mentioned in a press release. “The athlete in query has been absolutely vaccinated.
“New medical tips have been applied for the closing day. Gamers will stay masked when competing and PCR throat-swab assessments will happen earlier than and after every sport.”
The participant who examined constructive acquired two doses of vaccination in his house nation earlier than the world championship, the WCF mentioned.
Switzerland’s Peter de Cruz edged John Shuster of the USA 7-6 in a morning playoff sport during which all gamers on the ice wore masks for the primary time in Calgary’s bubble.
Masks have been beforehand necessary off the ice.
“My coach instructed me we have been going to play with a masks,” de Cruz mentioned. “I mentioned ‘let’s be certain that it is one the place I can really breathe a bit bit in it.’
“Our Swiss masks with the Swiss cheese, a bit robust to brush with these.”
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The Swiss skip put his religion within the governing our bodies of the occasion that it was secure to proceed Sunday.
“For my part, and this does not actually matter, I utterly belief the WCF and Curling Canada,” de Cruz mentioned. “In the event that they made the decision, then it is positively secure.
“On this state of affairs, I’ve had considerations for the final 14 months. If somebody tells me we will play then I am 100 per cent behind it. If you wish to win some video games, that is the one technique to do it.”
The Swiss superior to the afternoon semifinals to face Sweden. Scotland and Russia are to fulfill within the different semifinal in the identical draw. Gold and bronze-medal video games have been scheduled for a similar draw within the night.
Home broadcaster briefly steps apart
Home host broadcaster TSN refused to hold Sunday morning’s playoff sport between the U.S. and Switzerland “because of COVID-19 points,” however dedicated to incorporate a semifinal and the ultimate in its programming.
“Following well being and security considerations, the choice was made to not broadcast this morning’s qualifying spherical sport between the USA and Switzerland on the world males’s curling championship,” TSN instructed The Canadian Press in a press release.
“The choice was supported by our longstanding companions, Curling Canada and the World Curling Federation, with whom we’ve got collaborated to execute profitable tournaments by way of 57 days within the bubble in Calgary.
Saturday’s playoff sport and a pair of semifinals have been postponed whereas extra testing was carried out.
Athletes, coaches and occasion officers thought of shut contacts with the contaminated athletes examined unfavorable, in line with the WCF.
The lads’s world championship is the fourth Curling Canada occasion held in a managed atmosphere with out spectators following the nationwide males’s, girls’s and combined doubles championship.
No constructive assessments have been reported in Canada’s home occasions at WinSport’s Markin MacPhail Centre.
World championship curlers underwent “exit” assessments final week in preparation to depart Calgary’s curling bubble.
Canadian rink within the clear
Shortly after Canada’s Brendan Bottcher was eradicated from world championship rivalry Friday evening, the WCF suspended competitors due to three constructive assessments involving non-playoff groups.
A member of the Canadian workforce confirmed to CBC Sports activities that their workforce examined unfavorable for COVID-19.
The fourth constructive check involving the playoff-team athlete wasn’t acquired till Saturday morning, the WCF mentioned.
That participant subsequently examined unfavorable for the virus within the retesting spherical.
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