US swimmer Michael Andrew is now openly vowing to compete at the 2021Tokyo Olympic summer games without being vaccinated, potentially setting off a new controversy with the International Olympic Committee and liberal press.
As MSN reports:
Team USA swimmer Michael Andrew confirmed Thursday that he remains unvaccinated for the coronavirus ahead of the Tokyo Olympics, reaffirming a stance he and his family made clear at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials last month and probably subjecting himself and U.S. officials to further uncomfortable questions when the Games begin in two weeks.
Andrew, 22, said during a remote media availability from the U.S. swim team’s training camp in Hawaii that he chose not to get vaccinated in the month between the trials and the Olympics, explaining: “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. As an athlete on the elite level, everything we do is very calculated. … I didn’t want to risk any days out, because there are periods where, if you take the vaccine, you have to deal with some days off.”
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— New York Post (@nypost) July 9, 2021
Dave Durden, the men’s coach for the U.S. swimming team, deflected a question about Andrew’s vaccination status, saying: “All of our athletes, in the community that we’re in right now, we’re being very conscious, being very safe with how we’re handling our teams, how we’re going from place to place, how we’re operating in our training camp environment, how we are effectively bubbling ourselves. … And that’s probably the more important piece of this. Regardless of vaccinations or not vaccinated, it’s what our attitudes and actions are.”
Will Andrew serve as. a role model for patriotic athletes who refuse to bow down to extreme regulations, or will he be forced to suffer for what he believes in? Let us know what you think in the comments below.
Good for him……Stand your ground ……You couldn’t pay me to put that crap in my body
Good for him. Noone should be forced to be vaccinated for anything especially for an experimental vaccine. He is a true freedom loving American who takes responsibility for his own health.
I witness the death of a friend due to the Wuhan Coronavirus and after that experience I got my shot but I did have a reaction that lasted a while, a sore arm but survived so far.
Let him stay ‘home’ and do some rioting.
He has the intelligence to know better than to take the jab. That in and of itself shows he has the intelligence not to riot.
Comrad Alfie,How is your rioting goin on?
Increase funding to globalist, planned parenthood criminal organisation and increase vaccination to globalist puppet, libby snow flake sheep and the globalist puppet, libby snow flake sheep can cure their own mental illness .
Only globalist puppet, libby snow flake sheep take the bait and loot and riot since the globalist puppet, demoncrat criminal party refuses to prosecute them .
Get real idiot. He is doing a very smart thing.
Only idiots and the communists that manipulate them would go to riots.
Stand your ground against this lie they’re trying feed everyone. Don’t Jerry them vaccinate you ever. This isn’t a Vaccine it’s poison
Exactly!
Hell yeah buddy. Stand your ground.
If AMERICANS were puppets like globalist puppet, libby snow flake sheep we would still be on house arrest and wearing masks and not allowed to work etc .
After the make everyone accept the globalist coronavirus scam vaccine then they will administer the globalist puppet bill gates vaccination/computer chip .
Good for him!
The athlete is spot on .There are to many side effects with this jab to take it just before competition
Good for him. Stand your ground. Stop the vaccine mania
He is a far better person to be on the Olympic team than that flag and America hating MORON.
This is still AMERICA it is your right not to bow to the lies. stand your Ground. Buddy No Poison
It is your body not the governments; stand your ground. I can guarantee you the government will not cover your expenses if their experimental vaccine harms you.
Good for Andrew for not being a lab rat for the libs.
Now that’s what I’m talking about. Proud of this young man.
He is an olympic champion for fighting globalists and globalist puppet demonrat criminal party and globalist puppet rino criminal party .
You can sue them for telling the whole world
about your medical records, it’s a violation of
the HIPPA Privacy Act. It’s your business only!
Given the pandemic status in Japan, why are we going ahead with the Olympics?
Nobody should be forced to take a vaccine that’s only approved for emergency use. However, although it admirable to stand your ground, I’m sure they’ll make a big deal out of it and keep him out while allowing those to participate that wish to disgrace or embarrass our nation.
globalists aren’t going to allow him to compete without the globalists coronavirus scam vaccination . . . . .
THE DECISION IS TOTALLY UP TO MICHAEL!!!!!! HOWEVER THE OLYMPICS ALSO HAS RULES FOR THEIR COUNTRY????? THIS IS NOT THE US WHERE EVERYONE WHO COMPLAINS GETS THEIR WAY!!!!!! IF THESE PEOPLE CANNOT COMPLY WITH THE RULES OF THE COUNTRY AND OLYMPICS…….THEN HE CANNOT PARTICIPATE IN THE GAMES????????? VERY SIMPLE!!!!! MICHAEL IS RIGHT HE SHOULD NOT BE FORCED TO GET VACCINATED BUT THERE ARE COMPLICATIONS HE NEEDS TO ACCEPT!!!!!!!!!! THE END!!!!!!!!! MICHAEL…..STAY HOME????
Japan and the IOC keep changing the rules to suit their agenda, not the situation. The only reason why is because they want their way which is a totalitarian way. I am proud that US citizens do not bow to that behavior. Maybe we should just have our own competition and tell the sniffling rest of the world to go fly a kite. Oh, and please get a keyboard where the Caplocks key is not stuck in the Caps position. 😉 No one likes to be shouted at.
WE CANNOT CONTROL OTHER COUNTRIES RULES???????? IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE IT YOU HAVE NOT TRAVELED!!!!!!! AND YOU DO NOT READ THE NEWS ANBOUT HOW PEOPLE ARE TREATED WHO DO NOT FOLLOW THE RULES!!!!!!!!
Its different here as Japan begged to have the games there so they have to consider athletes freedoms from all countries and not make rules that are not fair to everyone !!!
Way to go! Your body, your choice!!
Freedom fighters, at whatever level, need to stand their ground. NOW Beijing and cronies threatening to go door2door and play gestapo tactics to subject us to their serum, it really is becoming the mark of the beast.
The communist democrat cult believes the word “Freedom” is anti government statement. Yes it is an anti communist government statement!
I also am not getting the shot. I have many people also
not going for it. It is up to the person themselves.
Good for you Mike! You, or any other American, has the Constitutional RIGHT to refuse ANY medical treatment you don’t want!
He has a valid rationale for his decision. He should not be forced to gamble his future on the guesses of doctors and scientists pandering to politicians. Government leaders cannot even assure the public that “official” data is correct. Reaction to China’s bat-flu has been a colossal, worldwide catastrophe, impossible to evaluate.
Vaccination is a personal medical decision. The elderly, according to the CDC, benefit by the COVID vaccination. Younger people have much more natural immunity. The most absurd new government policy forcing young children to be vaccinated, with unknown consequences needs to be stopped.
Doesn’t Japan set the rules for vaccination?
If JAPAN requires all be vaccinated for entry, then they are justified in denying him entry. He has known this for some time now.
Me, me, me. That’s the current generation. Doesn’t matter about the potential of killing others as long as I get what I want. So very sad.
From reading the article it sounds like he is only temporarily putting the vaccine off. Hopefully he will outright refuse it even after the Olympics.
So you can reject the flag and our anthem, and receive praise from the leftard community, but by golly if you don’t take the experimental vaccine, how DARE YOU SIR, HOW DARE YOU!
I’m with him. I won’t take the jab either. No one should be able to coerce anyone into taking an experimental drug – we are being used as human guinea pigs.
He has that right as a American . At least he doesn’t disgrace the USA, as other have.
The vaccine doesn’t work, for the most part. You don’t know about any adverse reactions as there are some comming out now but these adverse reactions are being kept quit because they don’t wqnt you to know what will happen to you and they have the American public, hell the world, afraid of thier own shadow. Damn so easy and control now being completed. More lies and control and now for the kill. will we let this happen?
Every person should have the RIGHT to choose for themselves what is best for them!!! Too many young teenagers having side effects. Get the damn vaccine approved, still not fully approved! What is wrong with the left radical’s brains? Lacking…. I would say!