While the Zika virus and family concerns have notably deterred some of golf’s best players from going to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and caused athletes in other sports to consider carefully, the tennis elite aren’t put off. “I’ll put mosquito spray on my body and take the precautions I have to,” said Federer, the runner-up to Murray at the London Games four years ago and a doubles gold medalist at the 2008 Beijing Games. The mosquito-borne disease has been linked to severe birth defects in infants born to infected women, and possible neurological problems in adults. Federer, the father of four, respected the choices by the likes of golfers Rory McIlroy and Charl Schwartzel to be unavailable for Rio selection because of the virus. The Jamaican Gleaner reported that Bailey-Cole, who won a gold medal in the 100-meter relay at the London Olympics in 2012, says he has rashes and eye pain but is not afflicted by the muscle pain often associated with the virus, which he caught in Jamaica. Dumais, 36, a four-time Olympian who was trying to become the oldest male diver to make the U.S.
Tennis Elite Going To Rio, Not Put Off By Zika Virus
Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: Sports
Sat, 06/25/2016 - 5:06pm
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