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The World: Latest Edition
"becca myers" Discussed on The World: Latest Edition
"They can have increased risk of getting cova because they live in a care center and increased risk more severe disease because they have impaired pulmonary function so it all depends on the situation. Will it says the majority of paralympian are not at a higher risk for co vid still. There are some added systems in place to keep perelman safe for instance. If someone has a visual impairment there will be audio messages and there are stations in the village if someone needs help swabbing for their daily cova test bianca that makes me wonder about guides in personal care. Assistants who accompany paralympic teams. I know organizers are trying to keep low attendance at the games but has impacted staffing numbers. So guides in personal care. Systems are definitely allowed at the paralympics but there are some reports from athletes saying they've been denied requests to bring a personal care assistant because of cova nineteen restrictions on team sizes and paralympic gold. Medallist becca myers who swims for team. Usa says this happened to her and she's actually chosen to withdraw from the games. She says she wouldn't have the support. She needs there and her decision. Got a lot of attention and even prompted. Senator maggie hossan from new hampshire to call out the us and paralympic committee at a senate hearing. This is an outrage and preventable situation. That should never have gotten to this point. I want the us olympic and paralympic committee to work immediately to address this issue. And i want them to ensure that all of our athletes are able to compete safely at this summer's game. I reached out to the olympic committee to learn how the staffing decisions are made and allocated but they didn't reply to my request for comment. The world's bianca hillier has been covering the olympics and paralympics for us. The opening ceremony for the paralympic games is set for tuesday of next week. Bianca thanks so much really appreciate this. Thanks marco a tech scandal is unfolding in germany that involves the ruling political party and a young. I t security researcher at stake criminal consequences. The defense the. It worker in question says she was only trying to do the right thing. After finding a massive security flaw jenny russell reports from berlin. It took twenty five year old lilith whitman. Only a few hours in may to crack. Open the app of germany's ruling party the cd you. They just didn't have any kind of serious security interest in a berlin park. Vitmain reflects one of the biggest discoveries of her career and then all of the fallout party. Campaigners were using cd you connect to gauge public opinion in the run-up to.
Pop Culture Happy Hour
"becca myers" Discussed on Pop Culture Happy Hour
"Na member fdic welcome back joining us. Is daisy rosario. She's an executive producer at stitcher with the show. Celebrity book club with chelsea. Devante says it's in. Its first season right now. Hey daisy welcome back. Hey thanks for having me. I'm an olympic junkie. Also with this is npr producer mallory. You hey mallory welcome back. Hey linda thanks for having me so to say there is a lot going on this. Summer is an understatement. Let's start by laying out some basics. These olympics were originally scheduled for last summer. They were delayed a year by cova. Did there was a lot of controversy about whether they actually should go ahead with them. Athletes who had been heavily promoted in the run-up to these games exited early. Usa sprinter. she carry. Richardson was forced to withdraw before the olympics even started after testing positive for marijuana tennis star naomi osaka. Who's been under a microscope. After withdrawing from two grand slams to care for her mental health lost early on. And maybe the most hyped athlete of the summer. The great gymnast. Simone biles missed most of her events after she unexpectedly became unable to complete her skull safely. Paralympic swimmer becca myers who won three gold.
Burn It All Down
"becca myers" Discussed on Burn It All Down
"How that happens in the you can have make this shit up but you just have to trust them. The trailblazers right. You just have to. You just have to believe everything is fine so you can't really expect anything else the but i'm still going to burn all this coats the way he wields power. And how the. I o c decides all these things so for burden amira. I have four olympic related things in very mad about. And i'm just going to run down the list because they can't decide which i'm more mad about. I'm mad about all of them. To be honest. The first thing you might recall About two weeks ago. I o c reversed their ridiculous decision to not allow nursing infants in to the olympic village and olympic space and while people applauded that there's new information emerging about why we should maybe hold our applause spanish synchronized swimmer owner carbonell talked. About how even though this reversal happened. She still was not going to be able to bring her child. Why you asked. We'll because the decision to let people bring their child and the child's of their caretaker. Put them still at an offsite location. Meaning that if you want to go nurse your child multiple times a day. You have to leave the bubble area of your team. You've put your health at risk and not south to go to a different location to nurture child logistically. This remains a nightmare so just letting people come does not logistically solve the problem. You're not letting people easily accessibly still feed their children. So that's ridiculous. The us opec is also being can ridiculous. Because becca myers one of our most decorated paralympian recently completely withdrew from the game. So why you ask because the uso pse being complete fuckers she's deaf blind paralympian. They are not letting her bring her mom as her personal care assistant their response was they already had a pca available to paralympian in swimming. Let's just be clear. They have a single. Pca for thirty three paralympic swimmers. Ten of them who are visually-impaired. Just the math doesn't add up the us opec and becca could see that. And it is terrible. And it's heartbreaking that because she can't get a reasonable accommodation right and she can't have somebody safe and who she trusts to help her at the olympic games. She's choosing to withdraw. She deserved better than that. That's simple shit speaking of some bullshit also from team. Usa let me talk to you really quick about this fencer dude team usa alternate allen headache who should not be at the olympic games He has been under safe sport investigation. There was literally a letter sent last month by multiple women infants and including two olympians. Who said they don't feel safe with him. Being on the team the response from the us olympic committee was to say. Oh we'll we'll tell save sport who's already investigating him they. Are you know and to send the women who wrote the letter a..
Democracy Now! Audio
"becca myers" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Japan have access to act scenes so so there we started to hear reports from the hospitals. That's their bits are starting to fill up. And there are actually thousands of cases of the thousands of people waiting to be hospitalized. This the situation that will door. Their condition is worsening faster than they should be hospitalized but they cannot find the hospital best. Do go into and just about twenty. Three percents of deputies people are the japan fully vaccinated so eighty percent of people are not which brings us back to jules boy cough With this mass protests happening even the highest levels of japanese government not wanting to this to go forward. But basically i ac- says the deal is a deal. Talk about how much money they make off these olympics. Nbc paid a fortune for running the olympics. Over the years they will broadcast an not clear. What they will show of the stadiums Since there are very few people outside of the athletes performing that's right. There is a lot of money. Sloshing through the olympic system it just tends to slash upwards into pockets that are already filled. Nbc gives about forty percent of the international olympic. Committee's revenues and overall in terms of the olympics seventy three percent of the revenues for the international olympic committee come from broadcaster fees. And i think that helps explain why they're perfectly content to have a made for tv event without all those people in the stands. Of course they prefer to have them in the stands but even if they don't the money continues to flow into their coffers. Nbc has announced that even though these games are hit with the pandemic and people won't be in the seats. This could well be the most profitable ever for nbc. Because of ad sales and other measures the corporate sponsors provide another eighteen percent of the revenues for the international olympic committee. And i think we're seeing really interesting. Divide between the corporate sponsors right now on one hand. The long-term worldwide partners that fork over these nine figure fees to be associated with the five rings. They're basically playing the long game with the exception of toyota which is of course has strong base in japan. The local sponsors domestic sponsors by which by the way they raised more than three billion dollars from low corporate sponsors in japan more than ever before. They're in a much trickier position. And i think that's why you're seeing toke toyota. Basically say out loud that the olympics have become a toxic property inside of japan. So there's plenty of money to be had. It just tends to shuffle to the international olympic committee to broadcasters to the corporate partners as well as to real estate interest in the olympic city. Let's see i think. Nbc has paid something like Seven point seven Billion dollars to air the olympics through twenty thirty two Jewish boy cough. I mean you played in the olympics years ago. Let's talk about some of the people who have pulled out like the two-time us paralympic swimmer becca myers. Who's won three gold medals two silvers and lebron's but she announced tuesday. She's withdrawn from the tokyo. Two thousand twenty paralympics after being denied an essential medical accommodation myers was born. Deaf with progressive site lost to usher syndrome in an emotional opinion piece for usa. Today she wrote quote since two thousand seventeen. The united states olympic and paralympic committee has approved the use of a personal care. Assistant whom i know and trust to be with me at international swim meets because of my disabilities but not this year. What happens if there is an emergency in the middle of the night. What if we need to be moved from one. Venue to another quickly masks and distancing have made it incredibly difficult for me to make out what people are doing or saying. If i don't have someone i can trust. How can i trust that. I will be safe. myers wrote. She spoke on cnn about her decision. I'm heartbroken. I can't even put it into words. I haven't been sleeping. Well i haven't been eating is just tore me apart. Swimming is a part of where i am. It's given me identity as a person. I'm i've always been known inspector the swimmer now not becker the deaf blind person. Now i feel very worthless as a person and someone who's trained for five years for this moment especially an extra year with the pandemic it just makes it all seem like it was for nothing. So that's beca myers speaking on cnn. She's blind she cannot here she was going with her mother who has been her personal system but they said no That there was personal assistance. There something like for a couple dozen people only one something. Of course that would not be adequate for her. Sushi has pulled out jules. Can you tell us more. And also the role of the paralympics. They're not going to be broadcast by. Nbc live during this time. Is that right. Well so i let me. Just say amy that while i did play soccer for the u twenty. Three national team in the united states also known as the olympic team. I did not actually participate in the olympics twice. Wanna be clear about that but she note the ioc. The international olympic committee has been saying over and over again as if repeating this mantra could make it true that the games are supposed to be safe and secure at every turn. They said these games will be safe and secure well if they're so safe insecure than why are we seeing all these cases even inside the olympic bubble which as itani just pointed out it's already been punctured if the games are so safe and secure. Why are athletes being forced to sign a waiver that states that if they die of corona virus or from heat stroke that they cannot hold. The olympic organizers liable if these games are so safe and secure than why did the new england journal of medicine come out with an editorial that just excoriated the international olympic committee for his preparations for the covert nineteen crisis in tokyo. They said that they were not putting forth. Best scientific practices. They aren't don't even provide masks to the people that are going to tokyo. So it's a b. y. o. m. situation of. Bring your own mask situation. The international olympic committee likes to talk about. How athletes are i. That's one of their mantras also same with the international olympic committee. But when you hear. The case of beckham myers my goodness. How poignant that is is just so heartbreaking and it's hard to take that slogan Athletes i very seriously when you hear that and one last point on the athletes. If i may say a really important study came out recently from ryerson university that compared the percentage of revenues that olympians get compared to athletes from other sports like the national basketball association the national football league the english premier league of football in over in the uk and what they found in that study was with those other leagues other professional leagues. The athletes took in between forty five and sixty percent of the revenues with the olympics. Olympians only taken four point one percent of the revenues four point one percent compared to forty five to sixty percent so olympians aren't even getting a fair share of the olympic money pie and that very much has to change in one exciting thing is. We're seeing athletes around the world. Begin to really come together in organiz around these issues and support each other groups like global athlete and athletes led group. That's out there. Fighting for justice groups like the athletic association in track and field groups like the newly formed international swimmers alliance. They're realizing that. Athletes wanna get more of a fair shake at the games that they need to come together and organiz independent.
Democracy Now! Audio
"becca myers" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Japan have access to vaccines. So so there. We started to hear reports from the hospitals. That's their bits are starting to fill up. And there are actually thousands of cases of the thousands of people waiting to be hospitalized. This the situation that will door. Their condition is worsening faster than they should be hospitalized but they cannot find the hospital best. Do go into and just about twenty. Three percents of deputies people are the japan fully vaccinated so eighty percent of people are not which brings us back to jules boy cough With this mass protests happening even the highest levels of japanese government not wanting to this to go forward. But basically i ac- says the deal is a deal. Talk about how much money they make off these olympics. Nbc paid a fortune for running the olympics. Over the years they will broadcast a not clear. What they will show of the stadiums Since there are very few people outside of the athletes performing that's right. There is a lot of money. Sloshing through the olympic system it just tends to slash upwards into pockets that are already filled. Nbc gives about forty percent of the international olympic. Committee's revenues and overall in terms of the olympics seventy three percent of the revenues for the international olympic committee come from broadcaster fees. And i think that helps explain why they're perfectly content to have a made for tv event without all those people in the stands. Of course they prefer to have them in the stands but even if they don't the money continues to flow into their coffers. Nbc has announced that even though these games are hit with the pandemic and people won't be in the seats. This could well be the most profitable ever for nbc. Because of ad sales and other measures the corporate sponsors provide another eighteen percent of the revenues for the international olympic committee. And i think we're seeing really interesting. Divide between the corporate sponsors right now on one hand. The of long-term worldwide partners that fork over these nine figure fees to be associated with the five rings. They're basically playing the long game with the exception of toyota which is of course has strong base in japan. The local sponsors domestic sponsors by which by the way they raised more than three billion dollars from low corporate sponsors in japan more than ever before. They're in a much trickier position. And i think that's why you're seeing toke toyota. Basically say out loud that the olympics have become a toxic property inside of japan. So there's plenty of money to be had. It just tends to shuffle to the international olympic committee to broadcasters to the corporate partners as well as to real estate interest in the olympic city. Let's see i think. Nbc has paid something like Seven point seven Billion dollars to air the olympics through twenty thirty two Jewish boy cough. I mean you played in the olympics years ago. Let's talk about some of the people who have pulled out like the two-time us paralympic swimmer becca myers. Who's won three gold medals two silvers and lebron's but she announced tuesday. She's withdrawn from the tokyo. Twenty twenty paralympics. After being denied an essential medical accommodation myers was born. Deaf with progressive site lost to usher syndrome in an emotional opinion piece for usa. Today she wrote quote since two thousand seventeen. The united states olympic and paralympic committee has approved the use of a personal care. Assistant whom i know and trust to be with me at international swim meets because of my disabilities but not this year. What happens if there is an emergency in the middle of the night. What if we need to be moved from one. Venue to another quickly masks and distancing have made it incredibly difficult for me to make out what people are doing or saying. If i don't have someone i can trust. How can i trust that. I will be safe. myers wrote. She spoke on cnn about her decision. I'm heartbroken. I can't even put it into words. I haven't been sleeping. Well i haven't been eating is just tore me apart. Swimming is a part of where i am. It's given me identity as a person. I'm i've always been known inspector the swimmer now not becker the deaf blind person. Now i feel very worthless as a person and someone who's trained for five years for this moment especially an extra year with the pandemic it just makes it all seem like it was for nothing. So that's beca myers speaking on cnn. She's blind she cannot here she was going with her mother who has been her personal system but they said no That there was personal assistance. There something like for a couple dozen people only one something. Of course that would not be adequate for her. Sushi has pulled out jules. Can you tell us more. And also the role of the paralympics. They're not going to be broadcast by. Nbc live during this time. Is that right. Well so i let me. Just say amy that while i did play soccer for the u twenty. Three national team in the united states also known as the olympic team. I did not actually participate in the olympics twice. Wanna be clear about that but she note the ioc. The international olympic committee has been saying over and over again as if repeating this mantra could make it true that the games are supposed to be safe and secure at every turn. They said these games will be safe and secure well if they're so safe insecure. Then why are we seeing all these cases even inside the olympic bubble which as itani just pointed out it's already been punctured if the games are so safe and secure. Why are athletes being forced to sign a waiver that states that if they die of corona virus or from heat stroke that they cannot hold. The olympic organizers liable if these games are so safe and secure than why did the new england journal of medicine come out with an editorial that just excoriated the international olympic committee for his preparations for the covert nineteen crisis in tokyo. They said that they were not putting forth. Best scientific practices. They aren't don't even provide masks to the people that are going to tokyo. So it's a b. y. o. m. situation of. Bring your own mask situation. The international olympic committee likes to talk about. How athletes are i. That's one of their mantras also same with the international paralympic committee. But when you hear. The case of beckham myers my goodness how. Poignant that is is just so heartbreaking and it's hard to take that slogan athletes. I very seriously when you hear that. And one last point on the athletes if i may say a really important study came out recently from ryerson university that compared the percentage of revenues that olympians get compared to athletes from other sports like the national basketball association the national football league the english premier league of football in over in the uk and what they found in that study was with those other leagues other professional leagues. The athletes took in between forty five and sixty percent of the revenues with the olympics. Olympians only taken four point one percent of the revenues four point one percent compared to forty five to sixty percent so olympians aren't even getting a fair share of the olympic money pie and that very much has to change in one exciting thing is. We're seeing athletes around the world. Begin to really come together in organiz around these issues and support each other groups like global athlete and athletes led group. That's out there. Fighting for justice groups like the athletic association in track and field groups like the newly formed international swimmers alliance. They're realizing that. Athletes want to get more of a fair shake at the games that they need to come together and organiz independent.
Democracy Now! Audio
"becca myers" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Japan have access to vaccines. So so there. We started to hear reports from the hospitals. That's their bits are starting to fill up. And there are actually thousands of cases of the thousands of people waiting to be hospitalized. This means that the situation that will door. Their condition is worsening faster than they should be hospitalized but they cannot find the hospital best. Do go into and just about twenty. Three percents of deputies people are the japan fully vaccinated so eighty percent of people are not which brings us back to jules boy cough With this mass protests happening even the highest levels of japanese government not wanting to this to go forward. But basically i ac- says the deal is a deal. Talk about how much money they make off these olympics. Nbc paid a fortune for running the olympics. Over the years they will broadcast an not clear. What they will show of the stadiums Since there are very few people outside of the athletes performing that's right. There is a lot of money. Sloshing through the olympic system it just tends to slash upwards into pockets that are already filled. Nbc gives about forty percent of the international olympic. Committee's revenues and overall in terms of the olympics seventy three percent of the revenues for the international olympic committee come from broadcaster fees. And i think that helps explain why they're perfectly content to have a made for tv event without all those people in the stands. Of course they prefer to have them in the stands but even if they don't the money continues to flow into their coffers. Nbc has announced that even though these games are hit with the pandemic and people won't be in the seats. This could well be the most profitable ever for nbc. Because of ad sales and other measures the corporate sponsors provide another eighteen percent of the revenues for the international olympic committee. And i think we're seeing really interesting. Divide between the corporate sponsors right now on one hand. The sort of long-term worldwide partners that fork over these nine figure fees to be associated with the five rings. They're basically playing the long game with the exception of toyota which is of course has strong base in japan. The local sponsors domestic sponsors by which by the way they raised more than three billion dollars from low corporate sponsors in japan more than ever before. They're in a much trickier position. And i think that's why you're seeing toke toyota. Basically say out loud that the olympics have become a toxic property inside of japan. So there's plenty of money to be had. It just tends to shuffle to the international olympic committee to broadcasters to the corporate partners as well as to real estate interest in the olympic city. Let's see i think. Nbc has paid something like Seven point seven Billion dollars to air the olympics through twenty thirty two Jewish boy cough. I mean you played in the olympics years ago. Let's talk about some of the people who have pulled out like the two-time us paralympic swimmer becca myers. Who's won three gold medals two silvers and lebron's but she announced tuesday. She's withdrawn from the tokyo. Two thousand twenty paralympics after being denied an essential medical accommodation myers was born. Deaf with progressive site lost to usher syndrome in an emotional opinion piece for usa. Today she wrote quote since two thousand seventeen. The united states olympic and paralympic committee has approved the use of a personal care. Assistant whom i know and trust to be with me at international swim meets because of my disabilities but not this year. What happens if there is an emergency in the middle of the night. What if we need to be moved from one. Venue to another quickly masks and distancing have made it incredibly difficult for me to make out what people are doing or saying. If i don't have someone i can trust. How can i trust that. I will be safe. Myers wrote. She spoke on cnn about her decision. I'm heartbroken. i can't even put it into words. I haven't been sleeping. Well i haven't been eating is just tore me apart. Swimming is a part of where i am. It's given me identity as a person. I'm i've always been known inspector the swimmer now not becker the deaf blind person. Now i feel very worthless as a person and someone who's trained for five years for this moment especially an extra year with the pandemic it just makes it all seem like it was for nothing. So that's beca myers speaking on cnn. She's blind she cannot here. She was going with her mother who has been her personal system but they said no that there was personal assistance. There something like for a couple dozen people only one something. Of course that would not be adequate for her. Sushi has pulled out jules. Can you tell us more. And also the role of the paralympics. They're not going to be broadcast by. Nbc live during this time. Is that right. Well so i let me. Just say amy that while i did play soccer for the u twenty. Three national team in the united states also known as the olympic team. I did not actually participate in the olympics twice. Wanna be clear about that but she note the ioc. The international olympic committee has been saying over and over again as if repeating this mantra could make it true that the games are supposed to be safe and secure at every turn. They said these games will be safe and secure well if they're so safe insecure. Then why are we seeing all these cases even inside the olympic bubble which as itani just pointed out it's already been punctured if the games are so safe and secure. Why are athletes being forced to sign a waiver that states that if they die of corona virus or from heat stroke that they cannot hold. The olympic organizers liable if these games are so safe and secure than why did the new england journal of medicine come out with an editorial that just excoriated the international olympic committee for his preparations for the covert nineteen crisis in tokyo. They said that they were not putting forth. Best scientific practices. They aren't don't even provide masks to the people that are going to tokyo. So it's a b. y. o. m. situation of. Bring your own mask situation. The international olympic committee likes to talk about. How athletes are i. That's one of their mantras also same with the international paralympic committee. But when you hear. The case of beckham myers my goodness how. Poignant that is is just so heartbreaking and it's hard to take that slogan athletes. I very seriously when you hear that. And one last point on the athletes if i may say a really important study came out recently from ryerson university that compared the percentage of revenues that olympians get compared to athletes from other sports like the national basketball association the national football league the english premier league of football in over in the uk and what they found in that study was with those other leagues other professional leagues. The athletes took in between forty five and sixty percent of the revenues with the olympics. Olympians only taken four point one percent of the revenues four point one percent compared to forty five to sixty percent so olympians aren't even getting a fair share of the olympic money pie and that very much has to change in one exciting thing is. We're seeing athletes around the world. Begin to really come together in organiz around these issues and support each other groups like global athlete and athletes led group. That's out there. Fighting for justice groups like the athletic association in track and field groups like the newly formed international swimmers alliance. They're realizing that. Athletes wanna get more of a fair shake at the games that they need to come together and organiz independent.
Democracy Now! Audio
"becca myers" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"Japan have access to vaccines. So so there. We started to hear reports from the hospitals. That's their bits are starting to fill up. And there are actually thousands of cases of the thousands of people waiting to be hospitalized. This means that the situation that will door. Their condition is worsening faster than they should have been hospitalized but they cannot find the hospital best. Do go into and just about twenty. Three percents of deputies people are the japan fully vaccinated so eighty percent of people are not which brings us back to jules boy cough With this mass protests happening even the highest levels of japanese government not wanting to this to go forward. But basically i ac- says the deal is a deal. Talk about how much money they make off these olympics. Nbc paid a fortune for running the olympics. Over the years they will broadcast an not clear. What they will show of the stadiums Since there are very few people outside of the athletes performing that's right. There is a lot of money. Sloshing through the olympic system it just tends to slash upwards into pockets that are already filled. Nbc gives about forty percent of the international olympic. Committee's revenues and overall in terms of the olympics seventy three percent of the revenues for the international olympic committee come from broadcaster fees. And i think that helps explain why they're perfectly content to have a made for tv event without all those people in the stands. Of course they prefer to have them in the stands but even if they don't the money continues to flow into their coffers. Nbc has announced that even though these games are hit with the pandemic and people won't be in the seats. This could well be the most profitable ever for nbc. Because of ad sales and other measures the corporate sponsors provide another eighteen percent of the revenues for the international olympic committee. And i think we're seeing really interesting. Divide between the corporate sponsors right now on one hand. The sort of long-term worldwide partners that fork over these nine figure fees to be associated with the five rings. They're basically playing the long game with the exception of toyota which is of course has strong base in japan. The local sponsors domestic sponsors by which by the way they raised more than three billion dollars from low corporate sponsors in japan more than ever before. They're in a much trickier position. And i think that's why you're seeing toke toyota. Basically say out loud that the olympics have become a toxic property inside of japan. So there's plenty of money to be had. It just tends to shuffle to the international olympic committee to broadcasters to the corporate partners as well as to real estate interest in the olympic city. Let's see i think. Nbc has paid something like Seven point seven Billion dollars to air the olympics through twenty thirty two Jewish boy cough. I mean you played in the olympics years ago. Let's talk about some of the people who have pulled out like the two-time us paralympic swimmer becca myers. Who's won three gold medals two silvers and lebron's but she announced tuesday. She's withdrawn from the tokyo. Two thousand twenty paralympics after being denied an essential medical accommodation myers was born. Deaf with progressive site lost to usher syndrome in an emotional opinion piece for usa. Today she wrote quote since two thousand seventeen. The united states olympic and paralympic committee has approved the use of a personal care. Assistant whom i know and trust to be with me at international swim meets because of my disabilities but not this year. What happens if there is an emergency in the middle of the night. What if we need to be moved from one. Venue to another quickly masks and distancing have made it incredibly difficult for me to make out what people are doing or saying. If i don't have someone i can trust. How can i trust that. I will be safe. myers wrote. She spoke on cnn about her decision. I'm heartbroken. I can't even put it into words. I haven't been sleeping. Well i haven't been eating is just tore me apart. Swimming is a part of where i am. It's given me identity as a person. I'm i've always been known inspector the swimmer now not becker the deaf blind person. Now i feel very worthless as a person and someone who's trained for five years for this moment especially an extra year with the pandemic it just makes it all seem like it was for nothing. So that's beca myers speaking on cnn. She's blind she cannot here. She was going with her mother who has been her personal system but they said no that there was personal assistance. There something like for a couple dozen people only one something. Of course that would not be adequate for her. Sushi has pulled out jules. Can you tell us more. And also the role of the paralympics. They're not going to be broadcast by. Nbc live during this time. Is that right. Well so i let me. Just say amy that while i did play soccer for the u twenty. Three national team in the united states also known as the olympic team. I did not actually participate in the olympics twice. Wanna be clear about that but she note the ioc. The international olympic committee has been saying over and over again as if repeating this mantra could make it true that the games are supposed to be safe and secure at every turn. They said these games will be safe and secure well if they're so safe insecure. Then why are we seeing all these cases even inside the olympic bubble which as itani just pointed out it's already been punctured if the games are so safe and secure. Why are athletes being forced to sign a waiver that states that if they die of corona virus or from heat stroke that they cannot hold. The olympic organizers liable if these games are so safe and secure than why did the new england journal of medicine come out with an editorial that just excoriated the international olympic committee for his preparations for the covert nineteen crisis in tokyo. They said that they were not putting forth. Best scientific practices. They aren't don't even provide masks to the people that are going to tokyo. So it's a b. y. o. m. situation of. Bring your own mask situation. The international olympic committee likes to talk about. How athletes are i. That's one of their mantras also same with the international paralympic committee. But when you hear. The case of beckham myers my goodness how. Poignant that is is just so heartbreaking and it's hard to take that slogan athletes. I very seriously when you hear that. And one last point on the athletes if i may say a really important study came out recently from ryerson university that compared the percentage of revenues that olympians get compared to athletes from other sports like the national basketball association the national football league the english premier league of football in over in the uk and what they found in that study was with those other leagues other professional leagues. The athletes took in between forty five and sixty percent of the revenues with the olympics. Olympians only taken four point one percent of the revenues four point one percent compared to forty five to sixty percent so olympians aren't even getting a fair share of the olympic money pie and that very much has to change in one exciting thing is. We're seeing athletes around the world. Begin to really come together in organiz around these issues and support each other groups like global athlete and athletes led group. That's out there. Fighting for justice groups like the athletic association in track and field groups like the newly formed international swimmers alliance. They're realizing that. Athletes want to get more of a fair shake at the games that they need to come together and organiz independent.
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"That was the first f spell that i don't think the one that was white but all they're actually there's other ones. There are castles in japan. So now backing off i appreciate that. But the paralympic thing back. The beckham myers here. the us opec. So is that the united states olympic performance committee must be plan paralympic with epi and there you as united states olympic and paralympic committee right. Us opec obviously paralympic was in. There has repeatedly denied my reasonable andy central accommodation because of my disability. Leaving me no choice. Full statement below. I've had to make the gut wrenching decision to withdraw from the tokyo. Twenty twenty paralympics. I'm angry disappointed. But most of all sad to not be representing my country. The us opec has the night a reasonable an essential accommodation for me as a deaf blind athlete to be able to compete in tokyo. Telling me repeatedly that. I do not need a personal care assistant who i trust because there will be a single personal care assistant on staff. That is available to assist me and thirty-three other paralympic swimmers nine of whom are also visually impaired. The us opec has approved me having a trusted my mom at all in an international meet since two thousand seventeen. But this time it's different with cova. There are new safety measures limits of non-essential staff in place rightfully so but trusted as essential for me to compete. I mean doesn't seem just pretty natural. Pretty reasonable. I do it the way she led that off. We're like okay. She's kind of leading here saying this is pretty reasonable and essential and then she's like let me explain to you exactly why i'm feeling that way to not get a pca. She knows what are we. Why is this. This is what i'm talking about though when it comes to everything we're hearing about these olympics are like. Why are the olympics doing that. Why is this happening. And this is another one that can we not get becca. Myers god damn. Pca let her mom along cova. It's a very easy scapegoat the fall because go. We can't do that but for someone who is blind and deaf. I'm assuming you want someone. You're comfortable around that you like trust so he just have some random person leading you around in tokyo. I and this is gonna sound Very ignorant and i apologize for that. Is there a lot of blind and deaf. People out there. I don't know she said there's nine visually impaired people just in that just in the swimming. Visually impaired i but is blind and deaf that is that is that not what i would guess. It's not that common but if it means anything point. Two percent of the world's population that's what popped up right away deaf blind which was two percent. That's a lot. That's how this goes back to the how you can't see or hear anything how you that's unbelievable. How keller's one of the craziest of all time well. That's what i'm this point supersonic wall. Bud so what would make the is. This is a helen. Keller situation is that what was different with helen. Keller anything blind and deaf. Right wasn't swimming in the olympics. So how come we're not. That's what i'm saying like. This is fucking unbelievable. And now a blind in-depth person cannot compete in the paralympic celebration basically of just accomplishing things that nobody ever thought anybody could accomplish in the world celebration of that blind. Deaf beckham myers won't compete. Because they won't let her mom be around her. What are we doing. take your walk. What are we doing. That's an unbelievable story. And you'll have one person for thirty three people it's like that's not gonna work in itself. Let alone not happen. The mom go point. Two percent of the world's population is a. That's a lot of. I didn't know that was happening. The the willpower think about that the willpower to content. Like how do you. How do you learn. I don't understand. I think has been so fascinating for a lot of people because they go. I don't know how that in becca myers. Here's swimming in the olympics paralympics blue. Let's go back a myers. Let's go dude ladder. Swin do bullshit letter mom there man. It's going on this or shit because it happened with the The lady who's running for candidates to who has a kid and she's not going anymore because they won't let her go and she got uh breastfeed or kit so she had to drop out to okay so like all right this is going to sound bad potentially but the olympics could say for the. Is it the olympics. Repair olympic exchange olympics. Could say you knew this was potentially going to happen. The planning schedule of like they could be assholes in say that you're saying that that could happen but why doesn't have till like. Hey just let her take like bit. I guess it's because they don't have enough cardboard box beds over there pretty much and i think they are with the covert over there. I think they're trying to limit as many people as possible. Their way way they're back whenever At the they're at a stage that we hopefully have fast like months and months and months ago I think so. I believe so. You know they say that happens with fashion. Everything starts over there and then comes over this way like after a couple of years. Is that same type of thing. Happening with calvin. Has it not hit japan as much in the past. Was japan still going while we were all shut down or is this another shutdown over there. I think it's a new one. Isn't it because of the the variant. Or whatever i mean. I don't know if they were completely back to normal but i i mean. They're going back into lockdown pretty much. Tokyo is in lockdown. She i mean so the so. The olympic athletes have to be in a bubble but they said the boo boo bubble was loose. So that probably means the local government authority. That has everybody on. Lockdown is not exactly thrilled about that. Thanks so yeah. This is going to be a potential. I mean there's a chance. Oh yeah today. No not today. I think it'll be like middle. Yeah it'd be two teams compete against each other and everyone on both teams gets covered and then they're like oh shit we have to. We have to pull the plug on this right now. I don't know if it will happen. But that's what everybody's saying about it. Yeah lots cancellation is. It feels more likely that's going to happen then in two weeks old clothes and once the rock walks out of that god damn hand shirt. That's true okay now you can. Dvr that by the way. 'cause i mean we're competing against the olympic opening survey. Marta smack.
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"Of the colombian people will finally opened their eyes to the criminality of the police. And the neoliberal system. That oppresses us more. And more every day. Plus we get the latest on haiti two weeks after the assassination of president giovanelli movies. A new prime minister was sworn in tuesday is questions grover. Who orchestrated the killing of the precedent. All that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now democracy now dot org the warrant piece report. I made me goodman. At least twenty. Five people were killed and china's henan province says it was battered with a year's worth of rain in three days. At least twelve of the victims perished in the inundated subway system. Dramatic online video shows passengers trapped on underground trains. Chess high in floodwater meteorologists. Said that kind of rainfall happen. Once in a thousand years greenpeace has warned. China's cities would see even hotter summers and weather rainy seasons due to the climate crisis china's evacuated at least two hundred thousand people in siberia. Three hundred twenty thousand residents have been told to stay indoors amidst record-breaking wildfires with the city of yakuts experiencing what might be one of the world's worst ever air pollution events here in the united states. The skies are once again thick with hayes as far east as here in new york city as the massive bootleg another fires rage in the west. Meanwhile the great salt lake the largest salt water lake in the western hemisphere has tied its all-time historic lowest level and is expected to break that record soon amidst the ongoing drought in japan. Even some sporting events already started the head of the tokyo olympics. Organizing committee did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the olympics as cove nineteen cases. Continue to rise. Meanwhile deaf blind swimmer. Becca myers has withdrawn from the paralympic games after being denied the right to be accompanied by her personal care assistant due to new cova restrictions. Three time u gold-medallists. Meyer said quote in twenty twenty one. Why is it disabled person. And my still fighting. For my rights thailand enacted a nationwide ban on public gatherings a southeast asia continues to suffer a devastating cova surge with indonesia recently reporting higher daily case numbers than india and brazil. Iran has put iran and surrounding areas on lockdown ahead of the ito on the holidays amidst a spike in cases meanwhile france launched its highly contested. Health pass as officials issued warnings over the current outbreak. This is the french. Health minister olivier valmont. Yesterday they were eighteen thousand new infections in only twenty four hours. It means that the spread of the virus has increased by one hundred and fifty percent over a week. Could we have never seen this. Before as corona virus cases also continue to rise here in the united states the highly transmissible delta variant now accounts for over eighty percent of new infections in the country cova nineteen deaths also increased by nearly fifty percent over the past week oklahoma louisiana and mississippi have recorded some of the highest recent surges in cases this comes as millions of surplus vaccine. Doses are set to expire unlikely. Likely go to waste state. Health officials have repeatedly asked the federal government to donate the unused doses to other countries experiencing vaccine shortages but throws requests have been rejected senators. Chris murphy mike lee and bernie sanders have introduced legislation to curb executive authority when it comes to going to war and massive weapons sales giving more power to congress to deliberate an approved such decisions. This is connecticut. Chris murphy speaking tuesday this shift in national security power to the president has resulted in endless wars reckless levels of arms sales and national emergencies. That seemed to have no termination. The national security powers act would repeal the thousand nine hundred seventy three war power sacked which presidents have used to circumvent congressional support. It would also repeal existing war. Authorizations cut funding for military opposition operations that were not approved by congress and require most arms sales to be approved by the house and senate in new jersey dozens of immigrant justice advocates chain themselves together and blocked the entrance to an immigration and customs enforcement black site in newark for hours tuesday morning. Protesters are demanding ice and the transfer of people to jails and other states. This is one of the activists who joins yesterday's action sarah to was arraigned with nyc. Swatch we need to take. Direct action is customs enforcement rogue agency there who fascist agency from the sense that totally outside of the law and outside pounds of morality taking people keeping them when they don't have to refusing to release them playing games playing games with people's lives nine people died of covert in nice custody last year. We're here to shut them down. We'll do whatever it takes the matter. What presidential administration is an office has to be completely abolished. Federal judge has temporarily blocked arkansas's near-total abortion ban a week before it was set to go into effect saying it's quote categorically unconstitutional. The law makes exceptions only if the pregnant person's life is endangering disproportionately targets people of color. Lgbtq plus and low income people in other reproductive rights news the mexican state evita crews voted to decriminalise abortion joining just three other localities that also allow the procedure up to twelve weeks of pregnancy mexico. City oaxaca and i'll go veracruz feminist collective la brew hostile mar that's the witches of the c- celebrated the news adding. Let's go after the twentieth states that are left in honduras. Dozens of afro indigenous gotta funai leaders and supporters took to the streets of the capital tegucigalpa. Tuesday demanding the safe return of forget of land offenders who were abducted from their homes a year ago by men wearing police uniforms. All for men were members of the group black fraternal organization of honduras among them was community. Leader twenty-seven-year-old out. Birth snyder santana and other news from honduras. The us state department has been former honduran right wing. President video logo and his immediate family from traveling to the united states logo is accused of corruption and accepting bribes from drug traffickers. He rose to power in two thousand nine and a contested election. That took place after a us back. Military coup overthrew democratically elected government. That same year logo is backed by the obama administration. French president emmanuel macron has been identified as a potential surveillance target for morocco in the major data leak of israeli company. Nso and it's pegasus spyware. Fourteen world leaders including south african president zero ramaphosa and the pakistani prime minister in ronald han appeared in the list of fifty thousand phone numbers that were people of interest for nso client since two thousand sixteen. The world's richest man completed a ten minute suborbital flight aboard his blue origin spacecraft tuesday jeff bezos spoken. A news conference.
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"Org the warrant piece report. I made me goodman. At least twenty. Five people were killed and china's henan province says it was battered with a year's worth of rain in three days. At least twelve of the victims perished in the inundated subway system. Dramatic online video shows passengers trapped on underground trains. Chess high in floodwater meteorologists. Said that kind of rainfall happen. Once in a thousand years greenpeace has warned. China's cities would see even hotter summers and weather rainy seasons due to the climate crisis china's evacuated at least two hundred thousand people in siberia. Three hundred twenty thousand residents have been told to stay indoors amidst record-breaking wildfires with the city of your coots experiencing what might be one of the world's worst ever air pollution events here in the united states. The skies are once again thick with hayes as far east as here in new york city as the massive bootleg another fires rage in the west. Meanwhile the great salt lake the largest salt water lake in the western hemisphere has tied its all-time historic lowest level and is expected to break that record soon amidst the ongoing drought in japan. Even some sporting events already started the head of the tokyo olympics. Organizing committee did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the olympics as cove nineteen cases. Continue to rise. Meanwhile deaf blind swimmer. Becca myers has withdrawn from the paralympic games after being denied the right to be accompanied by her personal care assistant due to new cova restrictions. Three time u gold-medallists..
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"Org the warrant piece report. I made me goodman. At least twenty. Five people were killed and china's henan province says it was battered with a year's worth of rain in three days. At least twelve of the victims perished in the inundated subway system. Dramatic online video shows passengers trapped on underground trains. Chess high in floodwater meteorologists. Said that kind of rainfall happen. Once in a thousand years greenpeace has warned. China's cities would see even hotter summers and weather rainy seasons due to the climate crisis china's evacuated at least two hundred thousand people in siberia. Three hundred twenty thousand residents have been told to stay indoors amidst record-breaking wildfires with the city of your coots experiencing what might be one of the world's worst ever air pollution events here in the united states. The skies are once again thick with hayes as far east as here in new york city as the massive bootleg another fires rage in the west. Meanwhile the great salt lake the largest salt water lake in the western hemisphere has tied its all-time historic lowest level and is expected to break that record soon amidst the ongoing drought in japan. Even some sporting events already started the head of the tokyo olympics. Organizing committee did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the olympics as cove nineteen cases. Continue to rise. Meanwhile deaf blind swimmer. Becca myers has withdrawn from the paralympic games after being denied the right to be accompanied by her personal care assistant due to new cova restrictions. Three time u gold-medallists..
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"Org the warrant piece report. I made me goodman. At least twenty. Five people were killed and china's henan province says it was battered with a year's worth of rain in three days. At least twelve of the victims perished in the inundated subway system. Dramatic online video shows passengers trapped on underground trains. Chess high in floodwater meteorologists. Said that kind of rainfall happen. Once in a thousand years greenpeace has warned. China's cities would see even hotter summers and weather rainy seasons due to the climate crisis china's evacuated at least two hundred thousand people in siberia. Three hundred twenty thousand residents have been told to stay indoors amidst record-breaking wildfires with the city of your coots experiencing what might be one of the world's worst ever air pollution events here in the united states. The skies are once again thick with hayes as far east as here in new york city as the massive bootleg another fires rage in the west. Meanwhile the great salt lake the largest salt water lake in the western hemisphere has tied its all-time historic lowest level and is expected to break that record soon amidst the ongoing drought in japan. Even some sporting events already started the head of the tokyo olympics. Organizing committee did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the olympics as cove nineteen cases. Continue to rise. Meanwhile deaf blind swimmer. Becca myers has withdrawn from the paralympic games after being denied the right to be accompanied by her personal care assistant due to new cova restrictions. Three time u gold-medallists..
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"Org the warrant piece report. I made me goodman. At least twenty. Five people were killed and china's henan province says it was battered with a year's worth of rain in three days. At least twelve of the victims perished in the inundated subway system. Dramatic online video shows passengers trapped on underground trains. Chess high in floodwater meteorologists. Said that kind of rainfall happen. Once in a thousand years greenpeace has warned. China's cities would see even hotter summers and weather rainy seasons due to the climate crisis china's evacuated at least two hundred thousand people in siberia. Three hundred twenty thousand residents have been told to stay indoors amidst record-breaking wildfires with the city of your coots experiencing what might be one of the world's worst ever air pollution events here in the united states. The skies are once again thick with hayes as far east as here in new york city as the massive bootleg another fires rage in the west. Meanwhile the great salt lake the largest salt water lake in the western hemisphere has tied its all-time historic lowest level and is expected to break that record soon amidst the ongoing drought in japan. Even some sporting events already started the head of the tokyo olympics. Organizing committee did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the olympics as cove nineteen cases. Continue to rise. Meanwhile deaf blind swimmer. Becca myers has withdrawn from the paralympic games after being denied the right to be accompanied by her personal care assistant due to new cova restrictions. Three time u gold-medallists..
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"Org the warrant piece report. I made me goodman. At least twenty. Five people were killed and china's henan province says it was battered with a year's worth of rain in three days. At least twelve of the victims perished in the inundated subway system. Dramatic online video shows passengers trapped on underground trains. Chess high in floodwater meteorologists. Said that kind of rainfall happen. Once in a thousand years greenpeace has warned. China's cities would see even hotter summers and weather rainy seasons due to the climate crisis china's evacuated at least two hundred thousand people in siberia. Three hundred twenty thousand residents have been told to stay indoors amidst record-breaking wildfires with the city of yakuts experiencing what might be one of the world's worst ever air pollution events here in the united states. The skies are once again thick with hayes as far east as here in new york city as the massive bootleg another fires rage in the west. Meanwhile the great salt lake the largest salt water lake in the western hemisphere has tied its all-time historic lowest level and is expected to break that record soon amidst the ongoing drought in japan. Even some sporting events already started the head of the tokyo olympics. Organizing committee did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the olympics as cove in nineteen cases. Continue to rise. Meanwhile deaf blind swimmer becca myers has withdrawn from the paralympic games after being denied the right to be accompanied by her personal care. Assistant due to new cova restrictions. Three time u gold-medallists. Meyer said.
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"Org the warrant piece report. I made me goodman. At least twenty. Five people were killed and china's henan province says it was battered with a year's worth of rain in three days. At least twelve of the victims perished in the inundated subway system. Dramatic online video shows passengers trapped on underground trains. Chess high in floodwater meteorologists. Said that kind of rainfall happen. Once in a thousand years greenpeace has warned. China's cities would see even hotter summers and weather rainy seasons due to the climate crisis china's evacuated at least two hundred thousand people in siberia. Three hundred twenty thousand residents have been told to stay indoors amidst record-breaking wildfires with the city of yakuts experiencing what might be one of the world's worst ever air pollution events here in the united states. The skies are once again thick with hayes as far east as here in new york city as the massive bootleg another fires rage in the west. Meanwhile the great salt lake the largest salt water lake in the western hemisphere has tied its all-time historic lowest level and is expected to break that record soon amidst the ongoing drought in japan. Even some sporting events already started the head of the tokyo olympics. Organizing committee did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the olympics as cove in nineteen cases. Continue to rise. Meanwhile deaf blind swimmer becca myers has withdrawn from the paralympic games after being denied the right to be accompanied by her personal care. Assistant due to new cova restrictions. Three time u gold-medallists. Meyer said.
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"Org the warrant piece report. I made me goodman. At least twenty. Five people were killed and china's henan province says it was battered with a year's worth of rain in three days. At least twelve of the victims perished in the inundated subway system. Dramatic online video shows passengers trapped on underground trains. Chess high in floodwater meteorologists. Said that kind of rainfall happen. Once in a thousand years greenpeace has warned. China's cities would see even hotter summers and weather rainy seasons due to the climate crisis china's evacuated at least two hundred thousand people in siberia. Three hundred twenty thousand residents have been told to stay indoors amidst record-breaking wildfires with the city of your coots experiencing what might be one of the world's worst ever air pollution events here in the united states. The skies are once again thick with hayes as far east as here in new york city as the massive bootleg another fires rage in the west. Meanwhile the great salt lake the largest salt water lake in the western hemisphere has tied its all-time historic lowest level and is expected to break that record soon amidst the ongoing drought in japan. Even some sporting events already started the head of the tokyo olympics. Organizing committee did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the olympics as cove nineteen cases. Continue to rise. Meanwhile deaf blind swimmer. Becca myers has withdrawn from the paralympic games after being denied the right to be accompanied by her personal care assistant due to new cova restrictions. Three time u gold-medallists..
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"Org the warrant piece report. I made me goodman. At least twenty. Five people were killed and china's henan province says it was battered with a year's worth of rain in three days. At least twelve of the victims perished in the inundated subway system. Dramatic online video shows passengers trapped on underground trains. Chess high in floodwater meteorologists. Said that kind of rainfall happen. Once in a thousand years greenpeace has warned. China's cities would see even hotter summers and weather rainy seasons due to the climate crisis china's evacuated at least two hundred thousand people in siberia. Three hundred twenty thousand residents have been told to stay indoors amidst record-breaking wildfires with the city of your coots experiencing what might be one of the world's worst ever air pollution events here in the united states. The skies are once again thick with hayes as far east as here in new york city as the massive bootleg another fires rage in the west. Meanwhile the great salt lake the largest salt water lake in the western hemisphere has tied its all-time historic lowest level and is expected to break that record soon amidst the ongoing drought in japan. Even some sporting events already started the head of the tokyo olympics. Organizing committee did not rule out a last-minute cancellation of the olympics as cove nineteen cases. Continue to rise. Meanwhile deaf blind swimmer. Becca myers has withdrawn from the paralympic games after being denied the right to be accompanied by her personal care assistant due to new cova restrictions. Three time u gold-medallists..