But, but, they're all sooooo brave! Just like Jenner.
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 Left destroys everything they touch ... there are very, very few exceptions.
Nah, the summer Olympics are boring as hell.
Gymnastics, swimming and sprints.
Wash rinse repeat, never anything different.
Plus the idiot brigade should be pretty strong this year, and not just the “American” ones, it will be a global showing.
If that hammer throwing malcontent isn’t kicked off the team I will not watch one minute. I left a message with the Olympic committee, as they weren’t answering their phone.
Olympics? What’s that? A new drink?
Olympics? What’s that? A new drink?
They did this song....
The Olympics - Western Movies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIUzVGtxQCY
The IOC has said that political demonstrations will not be tolerated. Assuming it means what it says, some athletes just might find themselves kicked out of the Olympics.
Japan won’t put up with that crap.
Say what you mean, mean what you say, and execute on it.
Same here. The Olympics used to be a pleasant diversion (like most sports) and a moment that brought national unity and pride to the country. Now it is the exact opposite in which our own athletes may as well be on the opposite teams since they hate America so much.
But, but, they're all sooooo brave! Just like Jenner.
I don’t need to brace myself. I won’t be watching. Olympics are dead to me.
Sorry but I won’t be watching or payittention this year. Just lie the NFL, it doesn’t matter anymore.
I can’t wait for the Japanese kitschy dolls, caricatures, anime... all that PR stuff the Japanese do so well.
Seaweed flavored biscuit treats might be interestingly packaged for the Olympiad. I was IN Japan for the 1964 Summer Olympics, and the theme song was HUGE. Everywhere was Olympic fever. But we were just passing through, headed to Thailand.
That lovefest to the NHS they did in the London Opening Ceremony in 2012 was sickening.
ABC did a much better job, NBC’s coverage has always been atrocious.
I'm Ready.
A real shame I won’t be watching it.
They redeemed themselves slightly with the James Bond/Queen parachuting in segment at the end.
Jim McKay, greatest of all time.
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