Lyles said he started feeling ill two days ago and knew it was more than just soreness from winning the 100. In Paris, there are no testing requirements, and national governing bodies develop their own protocols.
I’m torn on this one. It seems he took legit precautions up until the race. And the race is incredibly short, far less time than we were told was a serious risk. If the race takes 20-30 seconds and the lining up is a couple minutes, that’s not a lot of exposure.
He exhales much more air (therefore droplets contaminated with covid) much faster, covering a much larger area with it, and guess who has to run straight into his lung cloud.
They say it's safer outdoors because it dissipates easily, and after a short while the concentration drops to safe levels. But not when the very next instant you run straight into it with your mouth open, inhaling.
This is why I hated when people used to form dense lines outdoors, taking off their mask because it's not required outside. Like you couldn't still micro(macro?)spit someone in the face as you talk or even breathe.
What's the difference between playing with Influenca and covid?
"Just the flu" is seriously underselling Influenca and was coined by anti-vaxxers. I know people that have been in intensive care with it, even children.
It's not the "common cold" which usually refers to bacterial infections.
Imagine breathing hard and gasping for breath around a bunch of other people is also probably a big No-No. I didn't watch it did he go up into the stands to hug people like he did in the previous race?
The German silver medal winner in long jumping couldn't finish her last jump and got wheeled off in a wheelchair as she couldn't breathe properly anymore as a result from a 2 month old COVID infection still reducing her lung volume.
Isn't he the guy being medicated for asthma, allergies, and ADHD... For which the medication just coincidentally happens to be performance-enhancing? Yeah forgive me if I have no sympathy for the guy.