Australian Winter Olympics skier Katie Parker tests positive for COVID-19 on arrival in Beijing

Australian alpine skier Katie Parker has tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival in Beijing.

The 23-year-old — who is set to make her Olympic debut – missed the giant slalom on Monday after returning «ongoing» positive COVID-19 tests since catching coronavirus in late January.

She since returned four negative test results in America and hoped to arrive in time to compete in Wednesday's slalom.

However, due to the increased sensitivity of the testing being used by local authorities and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Parker tested positive and has had to go into isolation.

After someone tests positive at the Games, a second confirmatory test is undertaken and a third, additional test to confirm the Ct (cycle threshold) values.

The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) said the results of those tests will be known in the morning.

The AOC's chief medical officer Peter Braun told the ABC on Monday that there was a «reasonable probability» Parker would test positive and the AOC had already been making arrangements to ensure the process to involve the IOC's medical expert committee took place as quickly as possible.

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Lipshutt said the experience the Australian team has had with the medical expert panel (MEP) would stand them in good stead to ensure things moved quickly once the results of Parker's second and third tests were known.

He said Parker had been brought to Zhangjiakou where the AOC would be able to undertake its own testing to ensure it had the best possible case to present to the MEP.

Chief medical officer Peter Braun told the ABC