And if they exclude so many athletes for getting COVID, it’s pretty much going to mean that a lot of Gold Medals will come with an asterisk, because they didn’t face the best competition.
Many, many athletes turned in the performance of a lifetime while sick.
Tom Dempsey was crazy hungover when he kicked the 63-yard field goal. Michael Jordan was puking (it was food poisoning) when he helped the Bulls win Game 5 in 1997. Kurt Schilling was bleeding on the mound when he beat the Yankees. You never know.