The Paris Olympics and the BBC

Another odd absence was the number of sports stars at Paris with Covid: most famously, Noah Lyles had to be carried off the track in a wheelchair after the 200 metres final. A week earlier

Adam Peaty tested positive less than 24 hours after claiming a swimming Silver medal. He said he first began feeling ill a day earlier, ahead of the 100-metre breaststroke final. The

Australian delegation in Paris said five Covid-hit players on its women’s water polo team were clear to practise when they felt well enough to train. The media barely cared. Perhaps the

athletes Lyles embraced so vigorously after the race cared a little more? 

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