In hot water. Team USA’s Michael Andrew faced major backlash after the unvaccinated athlete spoke with reporters at the Tokyo Olympics without a face covering.“Michael Andrew, the highest-profile unvaccinated American Olympian, refused to wear a mask in the mixed zone,” USA Today Sports columnist Christine Brennan wrote via Twitter on Friday, July 30, alongside photos of the swimmer, 22, maskless in a press area. “Every other U.S.
swimmer I’ve seen all week has worn one.”Brennan reported that the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee decided not to penalize Andrew for his decision to go maskless after originally releasing a statement saying he was in “violation of the COVID mitigation protocols.”According to the USOPC’s Tokyo COVID-19
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