Posted on 06/30/2021 4:47:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In recent years, our nation’s most treasured sporting events have become consumed by players, leagues, and corporations abusing their platforms to advocate left-wing political causes—but when it comes to athletics, just as in foreign relations, politics has historically stopped at the waters’ edge. As the world gears up for this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, however, there are signs that the left’s insufferable wokeness is already destroying yet another once-great institution—the unifying patriotism and extraordinary excellence of Team USA.
Hammer thrower Gwen Berry turned her back to the flag as the National Anthem played while she was on the medal podium during Olympic trials on Saturday. Berry had previously been suspended for a year by the U.S. Olympic Committee for raising her fist during the National Anthem at the 2019 Pan American Games. But now, woke athletes like Berry have bullied the Committee into allowing anti-American protests during trials, and even demanded apologies for having been punished for breaking the previously existing rules. Berry has allegedly received such an apology from the CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee, and is apparently going forward emboldened.
“The anthem doesn’t speak for me. It never has,” the athlete said.
After the National Anthem played during the medal ceremony on Saturday, Berry declared “It was a set-up” and “real disrespectful.”
“I was pissed, to be honest,” she said. Left unanswered is what Berry will do if she wins an Olympic medal and the anthem is played in recognition of her achievements at the Tokyo games.
Far from an anomaly, Berry’s actions are just the latest in a series of red flags that suggest America is barreling toward international mortification as our “woke” athletes attempt to out-virtue signal each other at the Summer Olympics. Her fellow American Athlete, fencer Race Imboden, was also suspended after he protested the National Anthem in 2019 by taking a knee.
Perhaps the most shocking prospect is that raised by transgender BMX Freestyle bicyclist, Chelsea Wolfe. Recently, social media posts of Wolfe’s surfaced in which she stated that she wishes to win an Olympic medal so she can have the opportunity to burn the American flag in front of the entire world, and also implied that someone should assassinate Donald Trump.
In a now deleted Facebook post, Wolfe shared an article from PinkNews, a UK-Based LGBTQ interest news site, discussing the Trump Administration’s stance on transgender athletes. She added a caption stating, “My goal is to win the Olympics so I can burn a US flag on the podium. This is what they focus on during the pandemic. Hurting trans children.” In the comments section, Wolfe also implied that President Trump should be assassinated. She stated that she “would never say that someone should explode the head of the President. That would be illegal….but I will say ‘with dynamite.’” This, she explained was “just a sentence fragment” that is “not necessarily related to the sentence that came before.”
The unusual phrasing of her posting was attributed to a comedic video in which an individual
The goal of the left seems to be to spoil every aspect of society, even if it destroys themselves in the process.
It won’t matter to me because I won’t be watching the Olympics. Not a minute.
Prediction: all-time low viewership numbers (in the US) for these Olympics.
If it’s ‘woke’ I wont watch a second of it.
Brace myself?
The olympics had better brace itself for the same low TV audience turnout experienced by NFL, NBA, MLB. If they have the same financial backing that sports has then they won’t care anymore than those Chinese companies do.
I’m not watching one second of the olympics.
There’s a not insignificant chance that the Japanese government won’t allow any spectators in the venues. They’ve already prohibited foreign spectators. If that happens, whatever ‘woke’ demonstrations break out, are going to seem even more bizarre.
I dont know when it was I stopped watching the Olympics but that trend will continue.
Besides having become a platform for special interests, it’s a corrupt organization & not worth wasting of my time.
My wife will want to watch, I’ll bury my head in a book or some writing
Since Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Army Gen. Mark A. Milley can act like a traitorous ass, then perhaps hammer thrower Gwen Berry thinks she can, too.
I don’t think the olympics are much of a draw any more, for a number of reasons. For Millennials, it must be boring, and they’d rather play online multiplayer video games. Now, this, which will make Boomers drop out.
Not watching a second of it
It’s going to be woke because NBC is desperate for a ratings bump from any controversy since fewer and fewer will be watching.
woke olympics? wake me when it is over
There’s an Olympics this year?
If BRUCE Jenner isn’t in the decathlon, I’m going fishing.
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