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One of Team USA’s premier swimmers made her Tokyo Olympics debut on Sunday. Katie Ledecky raced in her first heat of the Games as part of the second day of swimming. The day featured heats in six events: the women’s 100m backstroke, men’s 200m freestyle, women’s 100m breaststroke, men’s 100m backstroke, women’s 400m freestyle and men’s 4x100m freestyle relay..
Updated: 4:19 PM CDT Jul 23, 2021 By BETH HARRIS, AP Sports Writer A debate is brewing between former gold medalist Maya DiRado and some American swimmers over U.S. medal threat Michael Andrew s decision not to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus as he prepares to compete at the Tokyo Olympics.DiRado sparked the discourse this week with a lengthy thread on Twitter in which she wrote that she s disappointed in Andrew s decision to compete unvaccinated and his reasoning behind it.Andrew revealed earlier this month that he isn t vaccinated after being asked about his status by a reporter. My reason behind it is, for one, it was kind of a last moment, I didn t want to put anything in my body that I didn t know how I would potentially react to, he said. As an athlete on the elite level, everything we do is very calculated and understood. For me, in the training cycle, especially leading up to trials, I didn t want to risk any days out. There were periods where yo
In this June 19, 2021, file photo, Michael Andrew participates in the men s 50 freestyle during wave 2 of the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials in Omaha, Neb. (AP Photo)
A debate is brewing between former gold medalist Maya DiRado and some American swimmers over U.S. medal threat Michael Andrew’s decision not to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus as he prepares to compete at the Tokyo Olympics.
DiRado sparked the discourse this week with a lengthy thread on Twitter in which she wrote that she’s “disappointed” in Andrew’s decision to compete unvaccinated and his reasoning behind it.
Andrew revealed earlier this month that he isn’t vaccinated after being asked about his status by a reporter.
Chip Le Grand11:09, Jul 24 2021
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New Zealand have medal hopes both on the road and the track at the Tokyo Olympics.
A Covid-19 adviser to the Japanese government has delivered a scathing assessment of Tokyo 2020’s capacity to withstand a significant outbreak in the Games village, saying Olympics organisers squandered their opportunity to prepare for the worst. Leading virologist Hitoshi Oshitani, a member of the Suga government’s advisory panel on Covid-19, challenged the Tokyo organising committee’s assurances that the Olympic village was safe and said there were “many holes in the playbook” through which the virus could spread.