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It's the quickest way to find out what's trending today. Tomorrow is the start of the 2020 Olympics. Let's get started. I don't know about you, but I have always been excited about the Olympics.
And I mean, from a child, I loved watching gymnastics and figure skating. Those were the two that I was not going to miss. Now, I don't remember a lot of the other sports actually watching them, but I did keep up with them. When McDonald's had their little game going on, because everybody was about trying to win not only the money, but the fries and the Big Macs and everything else that came along with the Olympics game.
But now, as an adult, my husband is really big into track. He used to run track. And so therefore, we watch track and field. We watch diving, swimming.
We watch it all now. And I don't know. It's just something about the Olympics that it's a feel-good type thing. And I know back in the day, it was feel-good because it seems like Americans would dominate the Olympics.
But it seems like over time, things are starting to change, especially like, have you guys checked out what had been happening with basketball? Like, really? Oh my gosh. So it's just one of those feel-good type things, though, on a whole.
But there aren't so many feel-good moments this year because it seems like a lot of things are kind of off. And it's causing a lot of tension. The opening ceremony hasn't even taken place yet for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. But already, it's arguably the most controversial one ever.
And it starts off with COVID. All roads lead to COVID, right? So the fact that the pandemic happened and the International Olympic Committee decided that, you know what? Let's postpone the games 12 months.
So one, that's why they're still calling it the 2020 Olympics and not the 2021 Olympics because everything happened so close. And they'd already had all of this stuff in the works. Like 2020 was on everything. So for them to change it to 2021 was going to probably be pretty costly.
And therefore, you know, why go through all that trouble? So you've got that situation with the coronavirus stopping us from starting the Olympics. But then now we've got players, participants, who are testing positive. There were two South African soccer players that tested positive just recently, becoming the first athletes to contract the virus in Olympic Village.
So that means they didn't have it prior to and however long out they had to maybe test themselves or whatever. So they're able to say that, no, they caught this in Olympic Village. Wow. And then there are six British athletes and two staff members.
They're isolating themselves after one of the passengers on their flight to Japan tested positive. And then US tennis star Coco, she's not going to be able to go. Why? Because she's tested positive for the coronavirus as well.
So that in itself is pretty serious. As a matter of fact, by Wednesday, the organizers had reported that there were 79 cases of coronavirus in Japan linked to the games. So what does that mean? We might be able to link the Tokyo Olympics to be a super spreader.
If people go and, yeah, so this is tough all in itself. And that's not even the half of it. So another thing that's rocking the Olympic timeline is the impact of trans athletes. We've got the New Zealand weightlifter, Laurel Hubbard, who came out in 2013 as transgender and had previously competed in men's events is now going to be competing against women and has a shot to metal in the Tokyo Olympics in the 87 kilogram category.
And it's being met with a split opinion by the public and by weightlifters. Some people are like, oh, no, it's OK. And then others are like, no, it's not fair. And personally, I think I would be on the side of the fence of no, it's not fair.
Just like we have special Olympics, maybe we need to have transgender Olympics or something like that, just so that it's fair. Because I know if I've worked really hard at my craft, and then now there's this possibility that somebody else has an advantage. Speaking of that, though, wasn't there a young lady in track and field at one point in time where they had her to take meds to cool her testosterone down? Now, she wasn't transgender or anything, but her body just naturally produced more testosterone.
And it's almost like they made her dumb her body down so that she could then compete against the others. Now, don't quote me on that, but I'm pretty sure I remember something like that. And so to me, this just isn't, it's just not fair. And while we're talking about not fair, the swim cap situation.
So there is a black-owned brand, swim caps, a soul cap, that's the name of the company. And according to the International Swim Federation, they're saying that these caps do not fit the form of the head, the natural form of the head. And it's crazy to me because these people undoubtedly don't have forcey hair. Because if you have forcey hair, you know your hair does not fit the natural form of your head either.
You know what? Watch me trying to put my daughter's swim cap on while we're sitting out alongside of the pool. I've even asked her swim instructor, hey, can you give me some tips or hints on how to make this go smoother? And they've said stuff and it doesn't work.
Guess why? Because our hair doesn't conform to our head. The way that this cap is just supposed to slide right on, it does not do that. If anything, I look at this and I say, you know what people?
This is actually a hindrance to African-American swimmers or anybody else who has a lot of hair. Because of the fact that whole aerodynamic type thing, yeah, you're not getting an advantage by wearing a bulkier swim cap. Like, where did I get that from? But that's just me trying to talk, talk, comment, talk, like making sense.
Another thing that does not make sense in Japan, period, is how freaking hot it is in the summer. So I feel sorry for these Olympic athletes, honestly, because they should just stick to winter Olympics in Japan. I lived in Japan, y'all. I know it gets freaking hot in Japan.
I don't know how they're gonna do it. They need to have those things like they have at Busch Gardens and other amusement parks, where it just sprints the water on you and blows the bands to help cool you off, because man, oh man, it's hot. It is hot. You know, even the people in Japan have issues with the heat, you know?
So yeah, yeah, not a fan of that. And then, you know, doping is always a talk, doping is always a thing. And then we talk about literal dope, like weed, and you've got your situation with Shikari. It's not gonna be able to participate, not in the individual event or in the relay that she was up for.
And that's really sad. I feel really bad for her. But then, too, I kind of look at it like, you know, rules are rules. So if you know the rules, then you gotta find ways, you go to your team and you find ways to get them to help you cope with what you're going through.
And I just pray that later on down the line will understand it better by and by, and that she'll get better opportunities and maybe get an opportunity to go to the Olympics again at some point. All right, well, that was today's episode of Tweet Trends. Join me on Twitter. I think I might be live tweeting to talk about the opening of the Olympics.
I do plan on watching. And I'm hoping and praying for the best that some of this drama cools down and we have some really great events and really great competitions that nobody gets hurt or nobody dies because of the heat. And this coronavirus thing does not then pick back up because we brought all these athletes together and then we send them back home to their various countries and whatnot. I'm praying for the best, y'all.
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