So Noah Lyles running in the Olympics on Day2 of Covid...impressive or jerk move?

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Anonymous wrote:I think many of the posters on here would need smelling salts if they had any idea what kind of stress these athletes have already put themselves through to make it this far, often from a very young age. The kind of fluid exposure in the sport you don’t even think (like wrestling) happens, happens. Many runners have run on stress fractures, bleeding feet, pain.. through pneumonia of the non COVID type… all kinds of things. That’s how they’ve made it this far. They KNOW the risks, because they’ve done it already, many of them probably with COVID already.

These are high level athletes that have accepted the risks of going to this competition. They’ve worked their whole lives for it, and the communities are not that huge that they don’t know each other. Of course they hugged. And of course they’re going home to isolate because they would have anyway after being in the environment they’ve been in for weeks. COVID, norovirus, campylobacter, e-coli, STIs - they know the risks. They may be “jocks” but these are smart, driven people.

Sounds like a bunch of strivers.

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Anonymous wrote:These are healthy young adults. A bit of a virus isn't going to stop them from competing in the biggest event of their lives.

However, vigorous exercise while actively infected is linked with development of long COVID. So a bit of virus may stop them from
nearly everything else thereafter.

Everyone acting like this is “normal” we are “back to” is complicit in the suffering these folks will experience. You’ll say a lot of things—but don’t say you were not informed.

Vigorous exercise for the otherwise couch potatoes. He will be fine in a few days.

No, an Olympic event is vigorous even for a well-trained athlete. What this guy did was a risk and he's not going to know the outcome of the risk--to him!--for a while. I wish him the best but I think he's an idiot.

Nutter he'll be just fine.

I do hope so, for his sake. But combined, the odds that every athlete who competed while infected gets away without post-acute complications is low. Calling me “nutter” and re-asserting “he’ll be fine” does not change that.

You’re arguing without facts. Nobody cares about your uneducated opinions. Go get some fresh air.

It is fascinating how many people (?) are responding to opinions you claim no one cares about.