In a teary video posted to his Instagram, silver-medal winning figure skater Vincent Zhou announced that he’s withdrawing from the Beijing Winter Olympics after testing positive for COVID-19.
In a teary video posted to his Instagram, silver-medal winning figure skater Vincent Zhou announced that he’s withdrawing from the“It seems pretty unreal that of all the people, this would happen to myself...I have been doing everything in my power to stay free of COVID since the start of the pandemic...The enormity of the situation, the just pain of it all is pretty insane,” he said.
“While it was always my dream to medal on an Olympic stage—which I did accomplish before this happened,” Zhou said with a chuckle, “the overarching dream was just to skate. If I didn’t love this, I wouldn’t still be doing this.” Zhou finished sixth in the short program at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, becoming the first skater to land a quadruple lutz in that event. But according to
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