Following his performance in the long program portion of the Team Event, which helped Team USA capture the (provisional) silver medal, Vincent Zhou suddenly found himself sidelined and alone.
On Feb. 7, in a heartfelt video posted to Instagram, Zhou announced he had tested positive for COVID-19, which forced him to withdraw from the men’s individual competition and move to an isolation hotel.
“I’ve isolated myself so much that the loneliness I’ve felt in the last month or two has been crushing at times,” Zhou explained. “The enormity of the situation, just the pain of it all is pretty insane.”
After recovering and emerging from quarantine on Feb. 16, the ISU invited Zhou to perform in the gala.
But later that evening, in a final blow to his already fragile…