Ona and other mothers' complaint against Tokyo 2020

When he competes at the Olympic pool in Tokyo on the second week of the Games, his son Kai will be one year old while watching his mother on television at her home in Barcelona. Despite being an infant, Ona Carbonell has decided that her son will not travel because of the demanding conditions that the organization set. Artistic swimming swimmer, who already explained in this newspaper the resolution of this case last week, has now made a video reiterating the incompatibility of being a sportsman and mother at the same time in a complete way.

"my partner was supposed to be with my son in a hotel room locked up for the duration of my stay there (about 20 days) and I had to move from the villa to breastfeed. I can't put the team at risk, mine is not an individual sport, and also my partner and son cannot be in a hotel for three weeks. Conditions are not good and I would like to make it visible so that combining it can be in the normal future," Carbonell said, who was "disappointed" on their social media.

The 31-year-old swimmer, who will live in all probability bid her Olympic farewell, ruled out from the very first moment to take her son. To do so, she thought of "taking the milk out to Tokyo not to lose it," but months later, and just three weeks after the start of the Games, the Barcelonsa saw on social media how other athletes carried her son. And she set in motion: "I talked to Alejandro Blanco of the CoE, and we moved. The IOC also supported me, and Tokyo approved it but put some unreal conditions. "

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Ona's cry has not been the first in the Olympic family. In fact, between restrictions and the pandemic, the organizing Committee had not contemplated the entry of babies from nursing mothers until Canada's basketball player, Kim Smith Gaucher, sentenced with a dichotomous phrase on their networks: "to be a nursing mother or an Olympic athlete." That message raised the alarm in a country where everything is analyzed at the millimeter. Tokyo corrected: "after careful consideration of the unique situation faced by athletes with nursing children, we are pleased to confirm that, if necessary, the children will be able to accompany them to Japan," the statement said.

The IOC writing raised blisters. American footballer Alex Morgan took a phrase: "I'm still not sure what it means'if necessary'. Is that determined by the mother or IOC (International Olympic Committee)? We are Olympic mothers and we say to them: it is necessary. " Finally, there are several athletes who have been able to take their daughters, but it will not be the case of Ona and others, who first criticize the lack of foresight and, second, the exceptional measures that are inaccessible.