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We need to talk about the cursed Tokyo 2020 Olympics
The cost of hosting is skyrocketing
What’s up with the Tokyo Olympics, and why is the governing body so adamant about going against what’s basically common sense, when you factor in the menace of a global pandemic that’s successfully ravaging the hosting city and its inhabitants?
The Olympics have always been a high stakes gamble for first-class competitors giving everything they’ve got for thunderous applause and solid gold, but this current climate of sickness and isolation is dangerously baiting the query of life and death.
Can we talk about how a young Black woman with high hopes and aspirations, coupled with the infinite gift of lightening speed on the track to fame and fortune, was cruelly derailed for the sin of testing positive for THC, after ingesting an edible?
Sha’Carri Richardson, a 21-year-old phenom was right in the middle of the US trials in Eugene OR, when her dreams to participate in the Tokyo Olympics came crashing down, and she suddenly went from superstar to disgraced doper.
Yes, she broke the silly rules, but in the age of COVID-19 and the swarming variants that are attacking even the least likely to fall, due to the emphatic promises of infectious disease experts who swear that the fully vaccinated are immune…
