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USOC: Athletes Can Wave Flag
Tuscon Citizen ^
| May 19, 2004
| wire report
Posted on 05/19/2004 4:04:46 PM PDT by sathers
The United States Olympic Committee has a message for its athletes: Go ahead and wave the flag.
Reports out of the USOC media summit last week in New York said United States athletes would be told not to wave the flag at this summer's Athens Games because of anti-American sentiment in the region.
The USOC has instructed US athletes on security details and proper behavior, but chief executive Jim Scherr said they were never told not to wave the flag.
'The United States Olympic Committee wants to make it absolutely clear that we have not--and will not--instruct our athletes to refrain from waving the flag during the upcoming Athens Olympic and Paralympic games,' Scherr said in a statement.
'Any suggestions or statements to the contrary do not reflect the official position of our organization.'
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: flag; oldglory; olympics; usoc
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Thanks for the permission to wave the flag, liberal idiots!
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posted on
05/19/2004 4:04:46 PM PDT
by
sathers
To: sathers
2
posted on
05/19/2004 4:07:18 PM PDT
by
July 4th
(You need to click "Abstimmen")
To: All
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posted on
05/19/2004 4:07:48 PM PDT
by
sathers
To: July 4th
Notice how he said that it does not represent the official position of the USOC.
What about the Olympic governing body as a whole?
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posted on
05/19/2004 4:09:04 PM PDT
by
sathers
To: sathers
If they are booed, I want them to wave the middle finger too!
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posted on
05/19/2004 4:09:43 PM PDT
by
BobS
To: sathers
Reports out of the USOC media summit last week in New York said United States athletes would be told not to wave the flag at this summer's Athens Games because of anti-American sentiment in the region.It was going to be either the middle-finger OR the flag....
"Message received" I presume?
To: sathers
The Olympics were pretty neat during the Cold War. Now it's pro athletes competing in a politically correct environment, with an occasional corrupt French official throwing the results.
I'd probably watch some coverage just to see which event gets bombed by terrorists, but we may not get any live coverage given the time zone difference.
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posted on
05/19/2004 4:12:06 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: BobS
That will most likely happen and hopefully your suggestion, too haha
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posted on
05/19/2004 4:12:09 PM PDT
by
Mon
To: sathers
WTF?
What's with the news? First, it's "Don't wave the flag". Now it's OK?
Then we blew up a wedding party. Now we didn't?
To: BobS
This should be the USA flag that our standard bearer carries into Greece..
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posted on
05/19/2004 4:15:26 PM PDT
by
sathers
To: sathers
Wow! The U.S. Olympic Committee is showing some backbone.
[Wonder if it will last?]
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posted on
05/19/2004 4:20:31 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
(Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
To: sathers
'The United States Olympic Committee wants to make it absolutely clear that we have not--and will not--instruct our athletes to refrain from waving the flag during the upcoming Athens Olympic and Paralympic games,' Scherr said in a statement. So then who was the idiot that reported no flag waving?
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posted on
05/19/2004 4:34:27 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(Make Michael Moore cry.... DONATE MONTHLY!!!)
To: sathers
"'Any suggestions or statements to the contrary do not reflect the official position of our organization.'
Emphasis on "official position"?
To: sathers
LOL Nothing like the light of God and day on rats!
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posted on
05/19/2004 4:47:06 PM PDT
by
Libertina
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To: sathers
Oh my gosh, I had forgotten that one. Thank you!
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posted on
05/19/2004 4:48:12 PM PDT
by
Libertina
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To: Mo1
The idiot was a hired "consultant" for (I believe) the US Olympics Committee who advised *us* on protocol etc.
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posted on
05/19/2004 4:49:18 PM PDT
by
Libertina
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To: BobS
"I want them to wave the middle finger too!"
LOL I'm really good at that....plenty of practice makes perfect!
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posted on
05/19/2004 4:49:31 PM PDT
by
Arpege92
(Socialism is the equal distribution of poverty!)
To: sathers
Damn straight they can waive the U.S. flag. And I hope the flags are big enough for the crew of the C-130 circling overhead to see.
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posted on
05/19/2004 5:07:20 PM PDT
by
bayourod
(Well, isn't that nice.)
To: sathers
That is precisely the flag they are afraid of the "horrid" Americans displaying. So that the world sees the hypocrisy of their ostrich position when the bombs go off. If I had a child in this Oly, there is no way she would be allowed to participate out of sheet fear for her safety.
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posted on
05/19/2004 5:16:26 PM PDT
by
doodad
To: doodad
sheet? Aw sheet I meant sheer.
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posted on
05/19/2004 5:17:19 PM PDT
by
doodad
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