“I would never take the risk of having an unhealthy child. I don’t know when that day will come for [husband] Jerramy [Stevens] and me, but I personally reserve my right to have ahealthy baby. No athlete competing in Rio should be faced with this dilemma. Female professional athletes already face many different considerations and have to make choices that male professionalathletes don’t.”
— U.S. star Hope Solo, who said if she had to make the choice today, she would not go to the Olympics because of concerns about the Zika virus that has beenlinked to microcephaly in newborn babies in Brazil. (SI.com)