The positivity at Covid of the bobsleigh champion Elana Meyers Taylor forced the United States to entrust another athlete with the task of standard-bearer at the inaugural ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
It will therefore be the figure skater Brittany Bowe who will have the honor of opening the US parade together with curling champion John Shuster.
These and Meyers Taylor had been selected through a survey of US athletes to choose the standard-bearer, with Bowe ranking second among the athletes.
Inevitable, therefore, that it was she who took the place of the unfortunate hobbyist, forced into isolation after the test but determined to be ready for the race anyway if she were to negate herself.
In a video that she posted on her social networks, she is seen doing exercises in the few square meters of the room that hosts her in the so-called 'isolation facility'.