8/27/2023 0 Comments Track starting blocks at olympics![]() CARLA WILLIAMS: Well, why, essentially, what made me make that decision was having a bad experience with the birth of my first child in the hospital and experiencing discrimination within that stay. Williams, that you’re an OB- GYN, that you yourself had two births at home after your first hospital experience - why? And how do you relate that to the disparities we’re talking about?ĭR. You can be extremely well educated, you can be, quote-unquote, “high-class,” you can have all the money in the world, you can be, you know, record artists and Olympic medal-winning athletes, and really nothing can spare you.ĪMY GOODMAN: And, I mean, the fact, Dr. You know, it’s saddening, and it’s maddening at the same time, that this is happening to Black and Brown women and that, essentially, nothing really can save you. She said, “As of June 2023…3 of the 4 members of Team USA’s 4×100m relay team…who ran the SECOND fastest time in history, and brought home THEE gold medal…have nearly died or did die in childbirth. And something needs to change drastically.ĪMY GOODMAN: I mean, I wanted to read Bowie’s Olympic teammate Tianna Bartoletta’s tweet, which is just stunning, after learning of her death. There is bias and there’s racism within our medical institutions. And it goes to show just that these patients, these women, their concerns aren’t necessarily being heard. It’s just - it’s incredible, the disparities that you’ve mentioned and just how Black women are dying throughout the country, in New York state, in New York City especially, where it’s up to 12 times more than white women. Can you talk about the significance of this enormous disparity between white women and Black women dying in or before or right after childbirth, Dr. Carla Williams, board-certified OB- GYN, who opted to have home births herself - an OB- GYN - after her first hospital birthing experience. ![]() The CDC recently marked Black Maternal Health Week in April, noting Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy complications than white women. Tori Bowie, who was Black, won bronze, silver and gold medals in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The Orange County, Florida, medical examiner reported she was eight months pregnant and in labor when she died, most likely from eclampsia, a complication of pregnancy. ![]() Tori was just 32 years old when she died at home last month. And if the IOC responded by developing more sophisticated testing methods, the cheaters combated that by taking diuretics and other masking agents that cover up the usage of drugs.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman, as we end today’s show looking at the death of Olympic track and field star Tori Bowie and an often ignored issue: the Black maternal health crisis. The first Olympic athlete to be disqualified was Swedish pent athlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenvali who tested positive for excessive alcohol. In 1960, Danish cyclist Knut Jensen died during the team road races after taking amphetamines and nicotinyl tartrate.įinally, in 1967, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) began outlawing drugs. And you can trace the usage of performance enhancing drugs and concoctions to 1904 when Thomas Hicks - the marathon winner - took strychnine and brandy during the race. The most complicated area in which technology had affected the Olympics is drugs and drug testing. The revolutionary bike used by Chris Boardman to win the 1992 individual pursuit was officially described as an "advanced composite monocoque with minimum-drag aerodynamic cross-sections, formed with unidirectional and stitched high-strength carbon fibre in an epoxy resin matrix". Cycling too has been aided by technology.
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