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Doctors, not IOC, should decide Olympics fate: 

Interview Japan Today, 24.04.2021

Hayley Wickenheiser, a Canadian member of the International Olympic Committee Athletes Commission, says medical experts should decide whether or not to stage the Tokyo Olympics, not athletes or the IOC.

Wickenheiser, a six-time Olympian who won four ice hockey gold medals and also played softball at the 2000 Summer Games, told CBC Sports that safety and public health need to be the decisive factors about conducting the Games at Japan in July and August.

„This decision needs to be made by medical and health experts, not by corporate and big business,“ Wickenheiser said in a posting on the CBC website. „A very clear and transparent explanation needs to be given if the Games are going to go ahead.“

Wickenheiser, who is set to graduate from medical school next week, knows the money, preparation and training that has gone into the planned staging of the Games in Tokyo, which is now under „emergency orders“ due to the Covid-19 pandemic that forced the postponement of the Olympics from last year.

Wickenheiser, a Hockey Hall of Fame inductee, knows after training for years to compete, she would do anything to go, so athletes, and the IOC, shouldn’t make the final choice on the Games‘ fate.

„You almost need someone else outside with less invested than you to say it is or isn’t worth it,“ she said.

„It shouldn’t be the IOC making that call. That should be the experienced doctors and physicians who have dealt with pandemics and people with no skin the game and nothing to gain or lose from this.“

Wickenheiser wants public safety, not television deals and sponsor bonuses, to be the critical factor.

„This is what it’s all about. Money and broadcast rights and promises made,“ she said. „I question if the health and the well-being of the athletes attending has been at the true forefront. I have to ask that question because it wasn’t when the Games were first postponed.“

Wickenheiser went on social media in March 2020 and said it would be irresponsible and insensitive for the Tokyo Olympics to be staged as planned. Five days later, Canada’s Olympic Committee said it wouldn’t send athletes to Tokyo that summer and two days later, the Olympics were postponed.

Canada is facing a new wave of COVID-19 variants and again Wickenheiser wonders whether it’s safe to stage an Olympics, even one without international spectators.

„I have to ask the questions and I think they’re fair questions,“ she said. „Prior to the pandemic I said there’s no way the Olympics can go ahead because history told us there was no way they could. And now I’m saying I don’t know, I wonder if they can again.“

Wickenheiser has been treating COVID-19 patients in Calgary.

„It’s very hard after what I’ve witnessed this past year and then think about the Games,“ she said. „I’ve seen such suffering.“

More than 15,000 Olympic and Paralympic athletes are expected from July to September in Japan, where the vaccination rate is below 2% of the population.

„I think we maybe have another month before they have to make a decision,“ Wickenheiser said.“This is someone’s country we’re going into. These are real people living in crisis. We have to be sensitive to the needs of a nation.“

Wickenheiser can sympathize with athletes who have trained years for their chance to compete only to be forced to do it during a pandemic.

„There’s no winner in this, whether it’s canceled or goes ahead,: she said. „It’s just a difficult situation all around.“

Athlet:innen

Ab 2019  in den Jahresberichten erwähnt.

2018

Kaufmann Olympia 2020
SM 20918 Fabienne Kaufmann gewinnt Gold

Quirici bringt sich in Position für Olympia
Elena Quirici ist erneut Europameisterin
Quirici erneut Europameisterin
Quirici gewinnt EM-Titel
EM Gold für Karateka Quirici 
Quirici double la mise
Elena Quirici im EM-Final

Bruederlin Ramona EM 2018

Noemie Kornfeld
La Suisse de la Sedunoise Kornfeld en or
La Suisse et Kornfeld en or
Im Olympiafieber zum EM-Titel
14-jährige Urnerin kämpft sich ganz nach oben, Luzerner Zeitung

2017
Zwei Prattlerinnen im Olympia-Team Muttenzer & Prattler Anzeiger
Ein Kanton sagt ja zum Spitzensport Basler Zeitung

Kaufmann verpasst doppelte

Sanne Dokter Grosse Revanche Luzerner Zeitung
Elena Quirici – das neue Aushängeschild des Karate Jetzt
Oriane Zumwald Wille und Hartnaeckigkeit Freiburger Nachrichten
Kaufmann Fabienne, Karate ist viel mehr als nur ein Sport, Surseer Woche
Kaufmann Fabienne, Vierter Heimsieg im Visier, Luzerner Zeitung
Kol Kabashi, diese Olympia findet sicher nicht ohne mich statt, Kreuzlinger Nachrichten

2016
Elena Quirici Gold Höhepunkt Schweizer Illustrierte
Michael Unternährer Auf dem Weg an die nationale Spitze Luzerner Zeitung
Jean-Baptiste Dayer Un Podium pour Dayer Le Nouvelliste
Ramona Brüderlin Kicken, leiden, schleifen Basler Zeitung
Florian Weber will 2020 nach Tokyo Surseer Woche
Kujtim Bajrami Tokyo plûtot que linz Le Nouvelliste
Fanny Clavien beendet Karriere Walliser Bote
Maurice Rösch Erneut zweifacher Schweizermeister Volksstimme
Roman Weibel Im Karate hat man zum Glück nie ausgelernt Bieler Tagblatt
Michael Rüegg, Marco Jost, Michael Unternährer Siege in diesem Verbund sind das Schönste Luzerner Zeitung
Michael Rüegg, Marco Jost, Michael Unternährer Medaillensegen Urner Wochenblatt
Shomshanok Benz Der Preis hat seinen Träger gefunden Zürichsee Zeitung

Allgemeine Berichte

2017
Bianchetti Milena, Gold und Krücken, Solothurner Zeitung

2016
Dominique Sigillo Dafür haben wir lange kämpfen müssen  Bieler Tagblatt
Katherine Broder Karatesport erhofft sich von Olympia-Aufnahme Schwung Volksblatt
Katherine Broder Erfolgreich an der Kleinstaaten EM Vaterland

Berichte Deutschland/Österreich

2017
Interview Alisa Buchinger
Karate Volltreffer mit der richtigen Haerte
Salzburg24 Alisa Buchinger

2016
Aachener Nachrichten Jugend Olympiade
DKV nominiert das Olympiateam für Tokio 2020
Karate Der Traum von Olympia Frankfurter Rundschau
Olympia Duracher Karateka mit Chancen auf Nominierung für die Spiele 2020 in Tokio

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