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Elliot Almond says Tinkle had strep throat.  Hard to believe they would even let her be around the team if that were actually true.  But I do not know how quickly it stops being contagious after antibiotics are started.  Still, a regimen of antibiotics could very well sap energy, much as we saw with Jos.

On the other hand, probably about 1/3 of my students (and I) have been down over the last few weeks with a horrible virus, that while technically not the flu and certainly not strep, gives a very nasty sore throat lasting about 10 days.  I wished it had been strep because that is treatable.  The first couple of days before the infection "blossoms" are typified by very low energy.  It is so prevalent in the schools and colleges around here at the moment that I would not be at all surprised if that is what got Jos and perhaps other team members. 

The other insight coming out of the flurry of this morning's press is that the team had an electrical outage at their hotel, and some of them walked down 35 flights of stairs.

I don't know if there was a press conference that was recorded, but so far I have seen no particular explanation for Chiney.  Not to go too far toward the conspiracy theory end of the spectrum, but if Chiney were actually sick, I wonder whether they would say.  It might sound like sour grapes, and it also might be that Tara would prefer future teams to think UCLA figured out a winning strategy. 

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Elliot Almond says Tinkle had strep throat.  Hard to believe they would even let her be around the team if that were actually true.  But I do not know how quickly it stops being contagious after antibiotics are started.  Still, a regimen of antibiotics could very well sap energy, much as we saw with Jos.

On the other hand, probably about 1/3 of my students (and I) have been down over the last few weeks with a horrible virus, that while technically not the flu and certainly not strep, gives a very nasty sore throat lasting about 10 days.  I wished it had been strep because that is treatable.  The first couple of days before the infection "blossoms" are typified by very low energy.  It is so prevalent in the schools and colleges around here at the moment that I would not be at all surprised if that is what got Jos and perhaps other team members. 

The other insight coming out of the flurry of this morning's press is that the team had an electrical outage at their hotel, and some of them walked down 35 flights of stairs.

I don't know if there was a press conference that was recorded, but so far I have seen no particular explanation for Chiney.  Not to go too far toward the conspiracy theory end of the spectrum, but if Chiney were actually sick, I wonder whether they would say.  It might sound like sour grapes, and it also might be that Tara would prefer future teams to think UCLA figured out a winning strategy.