Two Swiss athletes sick with norovirus at Olympics

Two Swiss athletes contracted the highly contagious norovirus that has sickened scores of people at the Pyeongchang Olympics, officials said Friday, the first competitors known to have fallen ill with the bug.

The Swiss Olympic team did not name the two athletes, but Swiss media RTS said it was the freestyle skiers Fabian Boesch and Elias Ambuehl.

They were not staying at the Olympic Village, the team said in a statement, and are no longer showing symptoms of the illness.

The Swiss team hopes they will recover sufficiently to take part in the Games.

More than 200 people at the Games-mostly security staff-have fallen sick with the virus, which causes diarrhoea and vomiting.