More than 30 athletes at the Beijing Olympics are in isolation facilities after testing positive for the coronavirus, organizers said Tuesday. The average stay in isolation is seven days."We will allow as many people out of isolation as we can, but only as many as we can do safely," said Brian McCloskey, chairman of the expert medical panel for the Beijing Games. He said 50 athletes have been discharged and the vast majority of athletes in isolation are well and do not require any medical treatment.Related video above: Tearful Vincent Zhou withdraws from Olympics due to positive COVID testThe disclosure that 32 athletes are in isolation facilities came after complaints by athletes and teams about inedible food, dirty rooms and a lack of training equipment and internet access. Organizers have acknowledged that isolation is already a difficult situation for athletes — who face the possibility of missing competitions after years of training — and said they were working to quickly address any problems.To prevent the spread of COVID-19, Beijing organizers are requiring everyone in the so-called Olympic bubble to take daily PCR lab tests. Those who are confirmed positive are taken to an isolation facility until they're cleared for discharge with negative tests. People who keep testing positive can also request a review by a medical panel. McCloskey noted that people who were infected can continue testing positive intermittently for a long time, even if they're not contagious. But he said previously infected people might also be testing positive because they were re-infected, and are able to spread the virus."The challenge is to distinguish the two," he said.Organizers said they expect the number of positive cases to decline as new arrivals into the Olympic bubble taper off, since screening procedures are intended to catch the virus early and prevent it from spreading. McCloskey noted that everyone in the bubble is being tested and that nearly everyone has been vaccinated."I think your chance of picking up COVID in the closed loop is less than anywhere else in the world," he said.So far, there have been 393 positive cases inside the Olympic bubble. In addition to athletes, the figure includes news media, team officials and others inside the bubble. More than 12,800 people have arrived from outside China for the Olympics.

Team USA earned its first medal of the 2022 Winter Olympics in snowboarding but it didn't come from reigning two-time Olympic slopestyle champion Jamie Anderson.Instead, fellow American Julia Marino won the silver, bested in the final moments of the competition by Zoi Sadowski Synnott of New Zealand for gold with her best score of 92.88 points.South Lake Tahoe's Anderson, the favorite to win the event, failed to make the podium and came in 9th place. The slopestyle snowboard final was a windy Saturday for the 12 women qualifiers, which also included Southern California's Hailey Langland who finished 11th. The competition is scored by a panel of judges that grade performances based on execution, difficulty, amplitude, variety and progression of the run. The slopes are full of several different features snowboarders can use depending on their creativity.The format of the final is that the best score of three rounds is the final score.Tess Coady from Australia won a bronze medal with a score of 84.15 points. How Anderson fell shortAnderson fell in her first round. By the second round she was in 8th place with a score of 60.78 points, her best of the three rounds, before falling again in her third round. At Anderson's Olympic debut at the 2014 Sochi Games, she became the first-ever women’s Olympic slopestyle gold medalist. In PyeongChang, she won gold in slopestyle and silver in big air.She grew up in South Lake Tahoe and said when she got on a snowboard for the first time, "I, like, fell in love with the winter season."She’s now based in Whistler, a town in British Columbia.Ahead of taking off for the Olympics, she announced her engagement on social media to Canadian snowboarder Tyler Nicholson.“What I love about our partnership is that we are willing to work through the challenging and darker times to rise above to the lighter vibrations and in doing so, we are a stronger team!” she wrote.