Carlos, US athletes take stand to end Olympic protest rule

Breitbart ^ | 28 Jun 2020 | AP

[falcon99]

I guess these two black turds don’t understand what the Olympics is supposed to be all about.

[dp0622]

It’s gonna get awfully confusing :)

Good thing I don’t watch.

The boxing I watch. But not for a while.

I still don’t get curling. Should look it up.

Looks like they’re cleaning the ice :)

[a fool in paradise]

Will the Olympics organization stand up and protect athletes from say Communist China if they take opportunity to protest against China’s policies and human rights record?

Or is this just a protection against backlash from the Olympics and if the athletes soon disappear to a re-education gulag for 5 years pay it no attention?

[BatGuano]

That bastard, John Carlos won’t quit.
He is known for one thing only, the fist in the air commie salute. So now, as he fades even farther to black, he campaigns to have the protest rule, made BECAUSE OF HIS SHAMEFUL ACTION, ended.
John Carlos: black skin, black heart, black brain, black blood and black mark on Olympic History.

[robowombat]

Yep, a one note symphony.

[hoosierham]

Cancel the Olympics.

[Thunder 6]

"The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously — after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important … so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be both ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth. (Most of his fans were just as ignorant and unlettered; the disease was spreading.)” ― Robert A. Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset

[MarDav]

Quick, without looking it up...what event did John Carlos compete in?

[elpadre]

In the early years, political expressions were outlawed, it was a contest of individuals under a with national identity only that they paraded under a national banner. Athletes could not be sponsored by a nation, only private funding. This was all contaminated by the Communist countries of the USSR era who did finance their Olympic programs and used international sports programs as part of their foreign policy. Then in 1972 in the Munich Games, the South African team was sent home because of apartheid. The non-government, non-political rules still are in force, but enforcing them is another question.

[moovova]

AND....it’ll happen.