Just before boarding the plane.
The Israeli figure skating team, which was scheduled to participate in the European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia this week, withdrew from the competition due to a number of cases of Corona virus.
Among the team members are also three athletes who are due to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics in 26 days, including their former European runner-up Alexei Bichenko and the duo Yevgeny Krasnopolsky and Haley Cops, with the championship being the last major preparation for them before the real thing.
In addition, the duo Maria Nosovitskaya and Mikhail Nosovitsky, who train together with the Olympic team in New Jersey in the United States and the young talent Mark Gordinecki, who trains in Canada, were also present, but his coach also stuck with Corona and decided not to take him out alone.
The one who will take part and be the only Israeli representative in the competition is skater Taylor Morris, who trains at Colorado Springs and has not been in contact with the other team members recently.
Sources in the skating association told Israel Today: "It was not an easy decision. They could fly and get caught in Estonia and in the end not reach the Olympics, even in their current fitness and the exercises they built, they could succeed in the championship. If we had to choose the right time maybe it happened, "Despite the mistake of not participating in the European Championships. Everyone will recover soon and return to full training soon."
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