Possible impact of national responses to the COVID pandemic on medal tallies at the Paris 2024 Olympics
Sports Medicine physician John Orchard: “We’ve done an analysis to show that countries that reduced Covid more effectively won more Gold medals than expected at the Paris Olympics and vice versa”
Tess Finch-Lees: It hasn’t gone away you know, Paris Olympics proved ignoring Covid is not a winner
“Tess Finch-Lees: It hasn’t gone away you know, Paris Olympics proved ignoring Covid is not a winner…’Olympic dreams shattered’, ‘Covid causing havoc’, ‘Everyone’s dropping like flies’: just some of the headlines from the Paris ‘post-Covid Olympics’. But when it comes to fighting Covid, there’s nothing.”
Tess Finch-Lees: It hasn’t gone away you know, Paris Olympics proved ignoring Covid is not a winner
Noah Lyles Details Racing With COVID At The Paris Olympics - CITIUS Mag
"I’m just going to let you know, there were a lot of people in the village who had COVID that just didn’t say it. I’m just the most popular person who got COVID and actually said I had it."
Noah Lyles on running with Covid at the Olympics
Did Covid precautions and treatments help Team Australia win big at the Olympics?
“What's less reported is the precautions the team took to keep themselves safe.
Inferring from media reports, these were:
- wearing masks (KN95s) during air travel to the games
- wearing them in the Olympic village
- Frequent testing for Flu, Covid and other viruses
- Rapid use of antivirals (likely Paxlovid), which some athletes said helped them win medals after 1-2 days.
Some questions for all of you:
- How long until each country realizes the competitive advantage offered by not getting sick?
- Easily accessible antivirals kept Team Australia performing at their best, why can't you access them to stay healthy too?”
Money over lives: The tragic case of Noah Lyles’ collapse at the Paris Olympics
"There is almost a complete blackout in the bourgeois media of the real state of the pandemic, with barely a word written or said about the deepening global wave of infections and the mounting societal toll of Long COVID."
