The 34-year-old Kummer, who gained gold on the Sochi 2014 Video games, is already in quarantine within the Chinese language capital as an unvaccinated athlete and mentioned attending to China concerned lacking qualifying races and being concerned about a place at the Swiss crew.
“So, final spring I made up our minds … I needed to take the verdict if I sought after to take the vaccine or no longer,” Kummer, already every week into her quarantine, informed a information convention.
“In spite of everything, I simply made up our minds like, no, for private causes,” she mentioned.
To begin with she mentioned her determination had no longer affected her arrangements, till Video games organisers introduced overdue final 12 months that unvaccinated athletes sure for Beijing must quarantine for 3 weeks on arrival.
Whilst vaccinated athletes don’t seem to be required to quarantine, Kummer was once pressured to overtake her pageant time table and depart for Beijing a lot previous, whilst additionally being concerned whether or not she would make the reduce.
“Again in spring after I took the verdict … I wouldn’t have dreamt of that, that this (quarantine) might be conceivable.” “I do not really feel punished as a result of I knew from the start of September that I’ve to move for quarantine if I’m going the Olympics,” she mentioned.
“Again then I assumed my possibilities have been so slender. However I do know what I’ve to do and I needless to say the entire international locations need to give protection to their other people, as a result of we live in a plague and it’s what it’s.”
Kummer mentioned she was once coping with quarantine neatly in spite of being clear of her crew individuals, and was once additionally managing to place in coaching classes indoors.
“So we need to maintain it and I maintain it my very own method and for me. It’s good enough, as a result of I’m ingenious sufficient that I will be able to do a excellent bodily coaching,” she mentioned.
