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 Olympics have been too leftist to watch for years now.
Brace myself? Why? I won’t be watching.
Haven’t watched the olympics since 1980
“The goal of the left seems to be to spoil every aspect of society, even if it destroys themselves in the process.”
This comes straight out of the Naked Communist.
No thanks. I will catch the highlights. Maybe.
I will watch to see what disgraceful acts they try to or get away with. It keeps things in perspective to see the full spectrum of things.
Who needs a two week lecture and virtue signaling?
Normal people will not contribute to nor attend these inhuman events and they will be foisted and hosted only by the ones with the money to do so.
Like that black beotch tumbler ...
WHITE money contributed ( gave free ) money for her training, diet, clothing, tickets, housing, play money and etc.
Haven’t watched that garbage for years. No reason to change now.
Yes, they are holding last year's Olympics. If this actually works out, the next step will be to hold the 1940 Olympics (also scheduled for Tokyo) and the 1944 Olympics - finally.
Won’t be bracing myself for anything because I won’t be watching.
Bingo!
I would rather the USA lose every competition than win with un-American, communist competitors.
I do hope Japan will be true to its word that there will be no political shenanigans, & if there are, Japan deports the perps immediately.
I am not going to brace myself because I intend to totally ignore The Olympics.
Think I’ll pass. I have several tires that need the air changed in them. Maybe some paint needs watched drying too.
I made it until the mid-1990s or thereabouts. The 1996 Summer Olympics was probably the last Olympics I watched. Haven’t paid attention since.
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.”
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Now do Biden and see if the DOJ/FBI lets you get away with it.
Just like the Academy Awards it is done.Their audience is aging and going to bed early.
After that huge 1980 hockey win the Olympics was over you can’t top that.
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