{"id":112062,"date":"2021-04-14T16:15:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T16:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=112062"},"modified":"2021-04-14T16:15:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T16:15:51","slug":"im-definitely-going-to-get-that-vaccines-not-required-most-usopc-athletes-still-eager-for-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/im-definitely-going-to-get-that-vaccines-not-required-most-usopc-athletes-still-eager-for-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m definitely going to get that&#8217;: Vaccines not required, most USOPC athletes still eager for shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, Naya Tapper admitted that she held doubts regarding a vaccine against infection.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For me,&rdquo; she said, &ldquo;it came down to if I really needed it, like if my immune system was strong enough on its own.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Tapper, a 26-year-old wing on the U.S. women&rsquo;s rugby sevens squad, ended up contracting the virus.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So after that, I was like, &lsquo;OK, I definitely don&rsquo;t want that to happen while I&rsquo;m at the Olympics, so I&rsquo;m definitely going to get that,&rsquo;&rdquo; she said last week during the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee virtual media summit.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>GO FOR GOLD: <\/strong>And stay up to date on Tokyo Olympics with our newsletter<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The USOPC is not mandating the vaccine for its athletes or members of the delegation, although leaders&nbsp;maintained that the governing body&nbsp; strongly&nbsp;encourages athletes be vaccinated prior to the Games &mdash; Wednesday marked 100 days until the opening ceremony &mdash; in Tokyo this summer. They will not track&nbsp;who&nbsp;gets vaccinated of the 800-plus athletes expected to be named to Team USA for the Olympics and Paralympics,<strong><\/strong>CEO Sarah Hirshland said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2021\/04\/14\/USAT\/33b45b29-002b-4e40-ad6d-64b762293211-cxx_JUMP_28.JPG\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/2021\/04\/14\/tokyo-olympics-vaccines-team-usa\/7202440002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, Naya Tapper admitted that she held doubts regarding a vaccine against infection. &ldquo;For me,&rdquo; she said, &ldquo;it [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;I&#039;m definitely going to get that&#039;: Vaccines not required, most USOPC athletes still eager for shots - Fin2me<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/im-definitely-going-to-get-that-vaccines-not-required-most-usopc-athletes-still-eager-for-shots\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;I&#039;m definitely going to get that&#039;: Vaccines not required, most USOPC athletes still eager for shots - Fin2me\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"During the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, Naya Tapper admitted that she held doubts regarding a vaccine against infection. &ldquo;For me,&rdquo; 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