BEIJING — Life inside the Beijing Olympics bubble comes with a long list of rules. Wear a high-grade mask at all times. Disinfect your hands. Don't stand within 6 feet of anyone, and don't forget the daily COVID-19 test.
Phill Drobnick has been able to live with all those things during his time in China with the U.S. curling teams. But he drew the line at one demand: the placards that declared NO CHEERING at the Olympic arenas.
"All the venues have had signs,'' said Drobnick, an Eveleth, Minn., resident and USA Curling's director of coaching. "I've never been to a sporting event with no cheering, so it would have been hard not to.''
