BEIJING — After 80 hours in the false positive purgatory that hundreds of Olympians feared, Kim Meylemans thought her nightmare was finally over. The Belgian skeleton athlete had spent three days in isolation here in Beijing, testing negative again and again to prove that an initial positive had been a mistake. On Wednesday, authorities said she could leave. An emergency vehicle picked her up. She assumed it would take her back to the Olympic Village.
“We did not turn to the Village,” she said, visibly shaken.
Instead, as Meylemans detailed through tears in a video posted to Instagram Wednesday night, she was taken to another isolation facility.