This Team USA Athlete Is Going Viral for Documenting Her Free Healthcare at the Olympic Village
This Team USA Athlete Is Going Viral for Documenting Her Free Healthcare at the Olympic Village https://t.co/46RYIBmq3M
- People (@people) August 10, 2024
After winning a bronze medal at the Paris Summer Olympics for women’s rugby sevens, Ariana Ramsey stuck around in Paris to take in the sights, watch other athletes compete in events - and also schedule a year’s worth of medical appointments at the free polyclinic in the Olympic Village.
She explained her shock at finding out all athletes have free healthcare while competing during the Summer Games.
“Not only in the Village do we have free food but we have free dental, free healthcare. I quite literally love it here. The way the Olympic village has free healthcare. I literally just got a pap smear for free and I have a dentist appointment and an eye exam next week. Like what?”
Ramsey, 24, got a free new pair of glasses following her eye exam. “I have 20/20 vision but they gave me glasses because I told her my vision gets blurry sometimes. So now I have glasses,”
According to the Paris 2024 organizing committee, the Village also offers cardiology, orthopedics, physiotherapy, psychology, podiatry and, of course, sports medicine-all at no cost to the athletes.
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