Olympic athletes reportedly bewildered by IOC's lack of coronavirus concern
“The message was not, ‘Protect yourselves and protect your community,’ it was, ‘Find a way to train,’” Han Xiao, a table tennis player and an athlete representative from the United States, said in an interview. “Regardless of their intentions, their first priority is not the public health aspect of it.
Among the biggest reported concerns were the organization not seeming to acknowledge the global impact of proceeding like normal. There might not be a single worse event in the world when it comes to spreading a virus amid a global pandemic than the Olympics, in which thousands of athletes and millions of spectators from across the globe would concentrate themselves in close quarters for two weeks.
Multiple people on the call reportedly asked IOC officials about a deadline on making a final decision to proceed with the games. They were told no date exists, and weren’t given any details on the decision-making .
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