Tokyo Olympics: winning could become about managing COVID stress
The Conversation
24 Jul 2021, 04:42 GMT+10
Olympism, the 19th-century philosophy of the modern Olympic Games, can be summed up as making the world better through sport. At its heart lie three values: excellence, friendship and respect. While encouraging people to be the best they can be is an obvious feature, friendship is touted as unique to the Olympics compared to other sporting events.
Previous Olympics have seen athletes from diverse nations joining together in a spirit of celebration and camaraderie. Tales of Olympic Village festivities are usually the norm.
Tokyo 2020 is unlikely to afford participants the same experience. As Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has put it, this will be the most restrictive sporting event in the world .
Maryland gold-medal paralympian had no choice but to drop out of Tokyo Olympics
Meyers denied mom as personal care assistant
Paralympian withdraws from Olympics
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LUTHERVILLE-TIMMONIUM, Md. â Becca Meyers, the Maryland native and three-time gold medal Paralympian swimmer from Lutherville-Timmonium said she was left with no choice but to give up her dreams of competing in the Tokyo Olympics.
It was a decision that didnât come easy for Meyers.
Covid restrictions prevented her mother from being allowed to serve as her personal care assistant, and without being allowed to bring her mother, the hearing and visually-impaired swimmer would have to get around Tokyo on her own.
Updated: 10:55 PM CDT Jul 22, 2021 Pete Gilbert Sports Anchor/Reporter One of the United State s best Paralympians is calling for change.Marylander Becca Meyers, 26, is not going to Tokyo to compete due to a decision she said would put her safety in jeopardy.Becca Meyers and her mother, Maria Meyers, spoke to sister station WBAL-TV Wednesday about the devastating decision and what they hope comes next.Meyers is one of the most decorated American swimmers in history. She s won six Paralympic medals, three of them gold. She put in countless hours at the pool training for the 2021 games. But she will not represent team USA this year – she withdrew – and she did so because of safety concerns, but none that has anything to do with the coronavirus. They took away a part of me. A part of who I am. I’ve always been Rebecca, the swimmer, and now I feel less than that, Becca Meyers said.The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee denied the Meyers
Swimmer who withdrew from Paralympics after being denied medical accommodation has Central Pa. ties
Before Becca Meyers qualified for the 2020 Paralympics, she earned six medals at the last two Paralympics. She also swam for F&M College in 2015 and 2016. Author: Harri Leigh (FOX43) Updated: 10:29 PM EDT July 22, 2021
LANCASTER, Pa. A 26-year-old Paralympic swimmer withdrew from the Tokyo Games on Tuesday after being denied a Personal Care Assistant (PCA).
Before Becca Meyers qualified for the 2020 Paralympics, she earned six medals at the last two Paralympics in London and Rio.
She also swam for F&M College in 2015 and 2016.
Meyers has Usher Syndrome, which causes deafness and progressive sight loss.
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