{"id":578875,"date":"2021-07-01T13:51:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T17:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=578875"},"modified":"2021-07-01T13:51:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T17:51:32","slug":"breastfeeding-athletes-will-be-allowed-to-bring-babies-to-the-tokyo-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breastfeeding-athletes-will-be-allowed-to-bring-babies-to-the-tokyo-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Breastfeeding Athletes Will Be Allowed To Bring Babies To The Tokyo Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbreastfeeding-athletes-will-be-allowed-to-bring-babies-to-the-tokyo-olympics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=578875&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1155234642.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Female athletes who are breastfeeding infants will be able to bring those children with them to Tokyo, according to Tokyo Olympic organizers, clarifying the event\u2019s COVID-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/a-breastfeeding-mom-or-an-olympic-athlete-canadian-basketball-player-may-be-forced-to-choose\">Daily Wire reported last week<\/a>, a Canadian basketball player, Kim Gaucher, publicly objected to an Olympic COVID-19 restriction that barred athletes\u2019 \u201cfriends\u201d and \u201cfamily\u201d from attending Olympic events \u2014 a restriction that barred Gaucher from bringing her three-month-old infant who is still nursing.<\/p>\n<p>Gaucher also said she had no other choices: she could not ship milk back to Canada during the Olympics, and because the Olympic schedule requires her to leave home for a month, pumping enough milk to store while she was actively training for the global athletic competition was out of the question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I\u2019ve ever wanted out of my basketball career has been to rep [represent] Canada at the Olympics. Last year, my teammates and I qualified for Tokyo, but right now I\u2019m being forced to decide between being a breastfeeding mom or an Olympic athlete,\u201d Gaucher said in an Instagram video.&nbsp; \u201cI can\u2019t have them both. Tokyo has said \u2018no friends, no family, no exceptions.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe basketball team is going to be gone for 28 days,\u201d Gaucher said. \u201cPeople have told me to try to pump like mad. I don\u2019t have enough milk in me to train as a high level athlete, get my butt back in shape, and feed her currently, all while stocking a 28 day supply. We\u2019ve looked into shipping milk, we\u2019ve run into complications, we\u2019re still exploring that option. But it\u2019s not going to be easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee said, at the time, that Tokyo organizers would consider requests to allow children to accompany their parents on a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNational Olympic Committees [NOCs] are responsible for the composition of their delegations at Games time, and the IOC is aware that a small number of them have been dealing with requests from athletes to bring their children on a case-by-case basis,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n<p>Gaucher called on the Internet to assist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need the help of the internet,\u201d Gaucher said. \u201cIf anybody knows anything, let\u2019s see if we can make a difference. It\u2019s 2021, let\u2019s make working moms normal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Tokyo Olympic organizers clarified that nursing babies were an exception to the rule barring unaccredited individuals from attending the Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOlympic athletes who are nursing, including U.S. marathoner Aliphine Tuliamuk, had pleaded publicly for Tokyo organizers to allow them to bring their infants to Japan,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/2021\/06\/30\/tokyo-olympics-breastfeeding-moms-can-bring-children\/7812079002\/\">USA Today said<\/a>. \u201cWith just more than three weeks to go until the opening ceremony, Tokyo organizers announced Wednesday they would allow those athletes to bring their young children with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter careful consideration of the unique situation facing athletes with infants, we are pleased to confirm that, when necessary, young children will be able to accompany athletes to Japan,\u201d the Tokyo organizing committee said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>There will still be some restrictions, however. The children must stay in \u201capproved\u201d hotels and cannot be brought into the Olympic Village \u2014 an arrangement that could prove difficult for mothers who may need to feed their infants several times a day or overnight. It is not clear how many athletes are affected by the policy, either; so far just the Canadian basketball player has been public about her struggle.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female athletes who are breastfeeding infants will be able to bring those children with them to Tokyo, according to Tokyo Olympic organizers, clarifying the event\u2019s COVID-19 restrictions.As the Daily Wire &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313855,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1155234642.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Breastfeeding Athletes Will Be Allowed To Bring Babies To The Tokyo Olympics","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1155234642.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Breastfeeding Athletes Will Be Allowed To Bring Babies To The Tokyo Olympics","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}