Team USA Swimming Star Refuses To Take COVID-19 Vaccine

Posted by Promotional Motor on July 18, 2021 - 11:59pm Edited 7/19 at 12:05am

Team USA Swimming Star Refuses To Take COVID-19 Vaccine

Some famous athletes use their platforms to promote the vaccination in this situation, but Michael Andrew isn’t doing it.

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He is the 2016 champion in the 100-meter individual medley, but he said that he wouldn’t get vaccinated for the Tokyo Olympics in his interview. The reason why it is so, he said that he doesn’t know how his body will react.

Until today, 90% of the U.S. Olympic teams are vaccinated.

The New York Post covered this story.

One of Team USA’s premier swimmers is heading to the Tokyo Olympics without being vaccinated.

Michael Andrew, the 2016 world champion in the 100-meter individual medley who recently flirted with the 200-meter world record last month, has not received the COVID-19 vaccine. During a USA Swimming media call on Thursday, Andrew, 22, conceded that he will not be vaccinated in the “distant future.”

“My reason behind it is, for one, it was kind of a last moment, I didn’t want to put anything in my body that I didn’t know how I would potentially react to,” Andrew said. “As an athlete on the elite level, everything you do is very calculated and understood. For me, in the training cycle, especially leading up to trials, I didn’t want to risk any days out. There were periods where, you take a vaccine, you have to deal with some days off.”

Andrew’s comments come in the wake of escalating concern over the COVID-19 Delta variant, which has triggered a state of emergency in Tokyo ahead of the fast-approaching Games. Nearly the entirety of the Olympics will be held under emergency guidelines, while fans will be barred from attending.

The far left doesn’t support when the Americans train their freedom. That’s why they don’t support Michael Andrew’s statement about the COVID-19 refusal.

CBS News covered this story too:

Star American swimmer Michael Andrew says he is standing by his decision to not get the COVID-19 vaccine before the Tokyo Olympics.

Andrew, an Olympic gold medal favorite, said in an interview on the Fox Business show “Varney & Co.” on Tuesday that remaining unvaccinated is a “risk” he’s willing to take.

“Everything we take and put in our body is very calculated,” he said. “You know, with the period going into Olympic trials, I didn’t want to risk any time out of the pool.”

Andrew said he didn’t think it was “necessary” to get the shot as Tokyo Olympics neared. However, he says he still isn’t taking the virus “lightly.”