US EditionHockey Coach Admits Using a False COVID-19 Vaccine Certificate to Enter China for Olympics
Fischer was fined nearly 39,000 Swiss francs after buying the certificate on social media to avoid China’s quarantine rule, SRF said.
- Swiss ice hockey coach Patrick Fischer admitted on Monday using a false COVID-19 vaccination certificate to bypass travel restrictions for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
- China enforced strict COVID-19 protocols for the 2022 Games, requiring athletes to be vaccinated or face a three-week quarantine, as Swiss snowboarder Patrizia Kummer experienced.
- Swiss public broadcaster SRF reported authorities fined Fischer nearly 39,000 Swiss francs in 2023 for document forgery. "I was in an extraordinary personal crisis because I didn't want to be vaccinated," Fischer said.
- The Swiss Ice Hockey Federation considers the matter closed, noting Fischer was already scheduled to step down after next month's world championship.
- Fischer remains one of Switzerland's most successful hockey coaches, having led the team to three Olympics and three silver medals at the world championship since 2015.
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Swiss ice hockey coach Patrick Fischer uncovered an unknown episode so far of his passage through the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022. He admitted to having attended the event with a false COVID certificate. The revelation arrives in the final straight of his stage at the head of the Helvetic combo, from which he will say goodbye after next month’s World Cup in Zurich and Freiburg. Far from avoiding the controversy, Fischer chose to publicly acknow…
Hockey: Swiss men's team coach Patrick Fischer falsified his VOCID-19 vaccination certificate at the 2022 Olympics.
He revealed it himself.
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Hockey coach admits using a false COVID-19 vaccine certificate to enter China for Olympics
Swiss ice hockey coach Patrick Fischer has admitted he used a certificate falsely claiming he’d been vaccinated against COVID-19 to get around China’s travel restrictions for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
One month before the start of the home World Championships, SRF reveals that the national coach, who will leave his post after the tournament, was fined for buying a fake covid certificate. He is the most successful coach in the history of the Swiss ice hockey team. But he is also resolutely anti-vaccine. Patrick Fischer, who led his team to three silver medals at the World Championships, went to the Beijing Olympic Games in February 2022 with a…
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