The World Cup is now not just about results.
Athletes should also stay away from COVID-19.
– These are special circumstances because we don’t live in a hotel but in a World Cup village where everyone shares a toilet, says Lena Hagren Rasberg, the Sweden national team doctor.
The “World Cup Village” near Hayward Field in Eugene is the facility that belongs to the University of Oregon.
And so the tournament became a life corridor.
The living situation means that everyone shares toilets and showers and eats in the same dining room – which in turn makes it difficult to break away from the anxiety that is creeping into the host city.
Wearing a mouthguard again is a recommendation from local health authorities.
“I don’t think everyone will wear mouth guards, I don’t think so,” says national team doctor Lina Hageren Rasberg.
– There are elevators and buses… There are many places. There you have to think for yourself. If you wear a mouthguard, you protect yourself, and that’s our recommendation.
“spread your hands”
To try to keep the virus at bay, Sweden has also introduced the usual guidelines for the pandemic: spread your hands and keep your distance.
– She says spraying your hands after you go to the toilet is essential.
– During the spread of the epidemic at home, restaurants were forbidden to eat a buffet, and here is the buffet we eat from. Everyone takes the same cutlery when eating, and I recommend — with five exclamation points — spraying your hands before starting to eat.
Then we often sit together and try to keep our distance.
Are you worried?
– You could have had buses wherever you were, but you share the toilet with several hundred others… You don’t feel really well, she says.
– Then there are a lot of people in the corridors, and the treatment is done there, but the toilet is still the biggest part. It doesn’t look good, but we have to go to the toilet so there isn’t much to choose from.
Duplantis lives in hotels
Despite all the common areas, Lena Haggren Råsberg feels the mode has a “safe base”, as everyone involved in the residence tested negative shortly before the tournament in the USA.
What happens if someone tests positive?
– Then graduated from the World Cup Village. The organizer has different hotels just in case. There is an organized line for that.
The majority of Swedish athletes live in the university building. It’s just a gold rush Armand Duplantiswho was housed by a sponsor in one of the city’s few hotels, as well as marathon runners David Nelson and Hannah Lindholm, who do not live there.
