Beijing Olympics organizers have reported their first day of no new COVID-19 cases.
There were no new positive COVID tests among 5,239 athletes and team officials and 63,731 workers inside the Beijing Olympic bubble in the 24-hour period through Wednesday, according to figures published Thursday.
Everyone inside the bubble must undergo daily tests.
Just seven people arrived at the Beijing airport Wednesday for the Olympics and none has returned a positive test.
A total of 435 confirmed positive tests have been detected since Jan. 23 from more than 1.6 million tests. Of those, 264 were athletes and officials and 171 were Games workers.
Russian world pairs champions Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov drew the most favorable position, first in the final group, for the short program to start their event Friday night at Capital Indoor Stadium.
The pairs competition, which concludes with Saturday night’s free skate, is the final discipline at the Beijing Games.
Mishina and Galliamov were drawn into the final group with their teammates, Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov and world bronze medalists Aleksandra Boikova and Dmitrii Kozlovskii. The reigning Olympic silver medalists, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong of China, also are in the final group.
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