Symptoms of a broken system etc... A bronze medal in the Olympics is well worth it in the eyes of someone who has dedicated his entire life (so far) to achieve this. It is short sighted, ignorant and extremely negligent, but this just mirrors societies attitude to COVID right now. On the other hand we elevate sports competition to matters of nationalistic pride, heroism, even politics and one of the greatest forms of vicarious achievements. An athlete at that level has already very little concern for their own health, likely taking PED of some form and pushing his body beyond it's limits. I find it difficult to be particularly mad at him. He did as everyone expected him to.

getting gold wouldn't have justified it. actually new rule; for every athlete that competes with with covid their medals don't count and one additional medal is deducted from their countries tally

just giving a potentially career destroying RESPIRATORY ILLNESS to dozens if not hundreds of atheletes just to get a FUCKING BRONZE

those people come in contact with the covid every day that they go outside, what's the big deal?

much better to give people covid for an olympic bronze than for a mcdouble

yeah I got bronze but would have gotten gold without covid