My kids at home saliva tests came from a company called Vault Health in Draper, UT.
Not sure for Lake Louise, but pretty sure the answer is yes for Beaver Creek. At least the way things stand at the moment, which also mean, I'm pretty sure there's not going to be any races outside of Europe if things don't change drastically.Will European countries require 14 day quarantine for athletes returning from Beaver Creek and Lake Louise?
Not really. It depends from country to country, regardless of EU, but at least for Slovenia, as USA is on red list, anyone coming from USA has obligatory 14 days quarantine, with few exceptions, but none would fit for ski racers, coaches, techs and/or anyone else traveling with WC tour. Negative, less then 36h old test made inside of EU or Schengen area (this renders tests made in USA useless) is obligatory for those exceptions, while if you don't fit into those exceptions, no test will make you avoid 14 days quarantine.You could get around this with a negative test.
Well that would be unfortunate. There’s plenty of technology in testing available to make that unnecessary. You could do a 3-day quarantine with testing before travel and everyday after.Not sure for Lake Louise, but pretty sure the answer is yes for Beaver Creek. At least the way things stand at the moment, which also mean, I'm pretty sure there's not going to be any races outside of Europe if things don't change drastically.
Not really. It depends from country to country, regardless of EU, but at least for Slovenia, as USA is on red list, anyone coming from USA has obligatory 14 days quarantine, with few exceptions, but none would fit for ski racers, coaches, techs and/or anyone else traveling with WC tour. Negative, less then 36h old test made inside of EU or Schengen area (this renders tests made in USA useless) is obligatory for those exceptions, while if you don't fit into those exceptions, no test will make you avoid 14 days quarantine.
We will see how things will evolve in next few months to first race (Soelden is moved 1 week earlier to avoid mixing WC tour with tourists), but honestly, I don't really think this will be anything like normal season, if there will be season at all. Situation is slowly getting worse, with more and more infections everywhere, and it's still summer, when things are easy. Once autumn and season of normal influenza will close by, things will get just worse in my opinion, so honestly, I don't really have much hopes for this racing season. But then I might have more time for my own skiing
See my latest thread re: no North American World Cup races this November and December.
So no races in Killington, Lake Louise, or Beaver Creek.
Now let's see which athletes from North American teams will be able to get to the EU to compete. In the pro cycling ranks it was all about having a proper work visa in order to get back overseas.
Yeah just came back from my mtb "inspection" of my favorite ski place in Austria (only 50km loop but almost 3000m of ascend... Polar says it was same amount of descent too but I'm not sure I noticed it as I remember just climbing all the time ) and when I checked phone there was FIS msg... no North American races this year (no info yet about China).So no races in Killington, Lake Louise, or Beaver Creek.
Now let's see which athletes from North American teams will be able to get to the EU to compete. In the pro cycling ranks it was all about having a proper work visa in order to get back overseas.
As for North American athletes, I don't think it should be much of problem. Ok I admit I don't know all the details as I'm simply not really interested in this enough to bother to search, but as far as I understood, travel is still allowed, but you need 10-14 days quarantine, depending on country.
It's a bit of a mess in Europe right now re who can go where and who has to quarantine. A moving target as many politicians has come up with calculations to decide when a country/region is "safe" and when it's "forbidden". It changes from week to week. 2020 ... what a shit year.
If the athletes were restricted to one country in Europe, which would be the best to set up shop? Which has the most race venues and with enough variety for a 'good enough' season?
If the athletes were restricted to one country in Europe, which would be the best to set up shop? Which has the most race venues and with enough variety for a 'good enough' season?
Can't say which is 'the best', but any country out of France, Italy, Austria and Switzerland has enough venues to set up a mini season.
Definitely Austria and only Austria.... simply because only in AUSTRIA, OSV can dictate politicians what to do. Everywhere else, skiing is low level sport, and noone will make. exceptions because of skiing or skiers, but in Austria, it's actually possible that OSV president tells Austrian PM what to doIf the athletes were restricted to one country in Europe, which would be the best to set up shop?
@Rudi Riet as I wrote, I'm not 100% sure, and even less for EU wide, as every country does things on their own, but as far as I understood Slovenian rule, you should be able to get to Slovenia from USA, but with 14 days obligatory quarantine (there's few exceptions where negative test made in EU should suffice, but none of them is related to sport or athletes so thats not relevant). But it's true that whats ok for Slovenia doesn't mean a thing for Austria or France or any other country.
That's not how I understand our governments thing regarding this. Based on this how I understand it, 14 days obligatory quarantine is in place for everyone coming to Slovenia from any country on red list (USA is on red list), but I don't think you are not allowed to enter.Slovenia is no longer allowing U.S. citizens to enter the country, at least as of August 17 (the latest list I've found).