Shoko Miyata, the captain of Japan’s women’s gymnastics team, has withdrawn from Paris 2024 after allegedly breaking the team’s code of conduct by smoking and drinking alcohol, according to the Japanese Gymnastics Association (JGA).
She's going to give up years or even decades worth of sacrifices for doing something that hurts her performance? Alcohol and cigarettes are legal, and even if she's underage, that's an issue for her parents. Kids make poor judgement calls all the time. Her decision here is completely unrelated to her status as an Olympian and certainly doesn't give her an unfair advantage.