Australia’s curlers get Winter Olympics reprieve despite Covid positive

• Tahli Gill tests positive before final two matches in Beijing
• Gill and Dean Hewitt to resume maiden Olympics campaign

Australia’s mixed doubles curlers have finally won their first game at the Winter Olympics – just a “crazy” few hours being told they had to leave China due to a positive Covid test.

With the team’s bags packed after Tahli Gill returned a series of positive Covid-19 tests, she and her partner Dean Hewitt were given a dramatic reprieve. They then had just 15 minutes to race to the venue, with Gill bringing only one glove in the mayhem, but they somehow went on to beat Switzerland 9-6. It was their first victory after seven successive defeats.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/ga8TlyZ