allezfred
In A Fake Snowball Fight
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Skating is the opposite of that. One skater on the ice, or two who are in a clear "bubble." We can leave hockey glass up. For years, people have argued that judges should sit at different points of the rink - great, now's our chance to try! We can quarantine skaters in hotels, maybe even skaters from the same country on a specific floor. The risk is manageable. This is so easy compared to other sports. I'm not sure why people are so defeatist about a skating season.
I don't think defeatist is the right word. If we were magically teleporting skaters from their hotels to the ice, then what you propose might be feasible. But they have to be actually allowed to travel to the country where the competition is being held, get from the airport to the hotel, to the rink and back again. They have to eat so you would have to stagger mealtimes three times a day. If there were skaters from 20 countries and they each were to be quarantined on a floor per nation that would mean block booking a hotel with at least 20 floors so they wouldn't come into contact with other competitors or coaches.