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Report: Canadian figure skater Keegan Messing ready to travel to Beijing Olympics after COVID issues
After living in COVID-19 limbo, Keegan Messing’s Beijing Olympic dream appears to be back on track.
The Canadian figure star has been stuck in a Vancouver hotel waiting to produce the required two negative PCR tests before making his way to the 2022 Winter Games, and he’s now ready to travel, according to CBC’s Jacqueline Doorey.
Update on Canadian Keegan Messing:
After facing challenges with COVID protocols (forcing him to miss the team event) Messing's now ready for travel.@TeamCanada & @SkateCanada are working on getting him to #Beijing2022 in time for the men’s event. #TeamCanada #FigureSkating— Jacqueline Doorey (@jackydoorey) February 4, 2022
Messing has already missed the team event, which began on Friday, but Team Canada is working on getting him to Beijing in time for the men’s event slated for a Tuesday start.
The 30-year-old is Canada’s current men’s figure skating national champion after capturing his first title this January in Ottawa. Beijing would be his second Olympic Games after he placed 12th in the 2018 men’s event in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The Girdwood, Alaska, native competes for Canada despite being born in the United States, having received Canadian citizenship through his mother, who was born in Edmonton.
Although he’s been unable to board a flight to Beijing, Messing’s hotel in Vancouver has provided him with a security guard, allowing him to use the stairwells to stay fit. He’s also been given private ice time once a day.
"The biggest challenge ... is trying to get him on a plane to get here. It's not easy to get here," said Skate Canada's high performance director Mike Slipchuk on Thursday.
Without his presence, Canada is currently sixth out of 10 countries in the team event – needing at least a fifth-place finish in the qualifying event to move to the final.
Canadian ice Dancers Piper Gillies and Paul Poirier finished fourth in the rhythm dance portion of the event, Michael Marinaro and Kirsten Moore-Towers earned fifth place in the short program, while 22-year-old first-time Olympian Roman Sadovsky, dealt the not-so-easy task of replacing Messing in the team event, settled for eighth in the men’s short.
"Kind of disappointing honestly," said Sadovsky after the event.
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