#USA#Swimming#therapy#dog retires, named honorary member of the team
The #swimmers requested #TherapyDogs to minimize their #anxiety at the #Olympics. “So many people find animals as a calming essence,” said Emily Klueh, manager of #MentalHealth & #emotional#wellness for USA Swimming. “athletes are looking for … environments where they can get away from the hype, [where] they can calm their nervous systems down.”
“Competitors vomited and fainted at finish lines, wheelchairs were deployed to carry athletes away from sun-scorched arenas and the fear of dying on court was even raised mid-match by the #Tokyo Games’ No 2 seeded tennis player Daniil Medvedev,” the report says.
“While global temperatures continue to rise, #ClimateChange should increasingly be viewed as an existential threat to sport.”
It dovetails w/ warnings from #France that the Olympic Games face an “unprecedented level of #threat” this year in #cyberspace & decades of Russian cyber aggression against the #Olympics amid conflict w/the IOC.
And the network of Russians seeking to deter potential spectators might just be getting started, #Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center said.
The board of the Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences of the Universitat de València has unanimously approved the exclusion of Israel from the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The faculty’s management believes that allowing the State of Israel to participate is a tacit acceptance of its crimes against humanity.
It is time to kick Israel out of the Olympic Games for as long as they deny Palestinians their basic human rights.
A nation comitting genocide should not be allowed to participate in Olympic games.
Athletics and Other Games, or You Are What You Wear.
Irish National Opera's staging of Vivaldi's L'Olimpiade transfers to London's Linbury ahead of this summer's games,. Some beautiful music, gloriously sung.
Israel has killed in 6 months 3 times more in #Palestine than the Russians have in 2 years in #Ukraine, 70% of which were women and children.
Russia should be banned from the #Paris 2024 #Olympics and Israel too.
Israel has killed in 6 months 3 times more Palestinians than the Russians have in 2 years in Ukraine, 70% of which were women and children.
I see no reason why Russia should be ban from the Paris 2024 Olympics and Israel wouldn't...beside the usual double-standard "get out of any situation creepy as it might" free card.
Today in Labor History January 18, 1983: The International Olympic Committee restored Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family. Jim Thorpe (Wa-Tho-Huk) was a member of the Sac and Fox Nation and an Indigenous American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. He is considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, winning two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics (one in classic pentathlon and the other in decathlon). He also played football and baseball. They stripped him of his Olympic titles when they discovered he played two seasons of semi-professional baseball before competing in the Olympics, violating the amateurs-only rule of the era.