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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

[b]Vigorous exercise for the otherwise couch potatoes. [/b]He will be fine in a few days.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

The reason many African athletes do well in marathons is because they have experienced painful tribal rituals that inure them to some degree to the paint of running at a high speed for 26 miles.  Many athletes have trained their bodies that they are in top condition and can endure pain and and have larger lung capacity than ordinary people.   Other than asthma, I suspect Lyles is in the top 1 percentile of physical condition.   He chose to rely on the body he has trained rather than the medical advice you might think appropriate.    It is not Lyles who is the idiot.[/quote]

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