German star tests positive for COVID-19

Three-time Olympic champion Eric Frenzel and his Nordic combined skiing team-mate Terence Weber have tested positive for COVID-19 at the Beijing Games and are isolating.

The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) said on Friday that retests for Frenzel and Weber carried out the previous evening confirmed the original result when they arrived at Beijing airport.

The DOSB said that all other teammates tested negative and that none of them are close contacts of Frenzel and Weber, who were isolated immediately after the airport positive.

Frenzel and Weber can now only compete in the first Nordic combined event on Wednesday if they have tested negative twice. The next competition is six days later on February 15. Only one negative test is required after 10 days in isolation.

Frenzel, 33, is one of the most successful athletes in Nordic combined skiing, which twins ski-jumping with cross-country skiing.

He has six Olympic medals, including a silver and two bronze, since 2010 and also 15 world championship medals, seven of them gold.

He is the second prominent Nordic combined skier in isolation, joining World Cup champion Jarl Magnus Riiber of Norway.

Frenzel and Weber join figure skater Nolan Seegert as German athletes in Beijing who have tested positive for the virus.

German star tests positive for COVID-19
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