They can do whatever they want. The Olympics is a joke. Won’t be watching.
No one will watch a bunch of look-at-me snowflake athletes “protesting injustice”. Past time to shut this crap down.
Ok. If I’m an athlete I would wear a warm up jacket with the words “FREE HONG KONG” on it.
I planned to watch several hours of the Olympics. If I hear there is even one American athlete protesting our flag or during our Anthem, and that athlete is not removed from the team, I will never watch Olympics again. The NFL is dead to me, and that freed up a lot of time. I could use the extra hours in my life from eliminating the Olympics too.
There are 206 countries that compete in the Olympic games. That means that the vote to make decisions like that rule only includes our one vote to change it. If they are trying to change the rule through threats, the IOC has the option of baring the US from competition for violating rules and making a travesty of the games.
rwood
All them guys winning chick events. Why interfere with that, right?
We don’t need more angry trollish Rapinoes or big mouthed LeBrons, telling us how everything in the states is horrible. They must have forgotten, people turn to sports for the diversion, rarely to hear some individual millionaire ball bouncer’s opinion on society.
Time to shut it down. The Olympics were reinstituted to build global unity, not protests.
Be our guests!
And it *stays* off.
Some player needs to wear a sign that says “abortion is murder”.
although nations have violated the rules over the years, the Olympics, from its birth, has held to a non-political stance. That rule has held for the most-part, and should be enforced, not removed. Remove the offending athlete or team, not the rule.
Do these people not understand one of the points to the Olympics?
They are confusing their ability in a certain sport as making them someone whos opinion we care about. We don’t.
My best advise is to do your thing, win or lose, shut up and go home.
PS unless you are participating at gunpoint, you are neither oppressed or powerless. Quit and find something else to do.
The Olympics died in 1972
If they want to do some protesting then they do it at home.
Otherwise STFU and GTFO
Just having the honor of being in the Olympics seems to me that they aren’t all that oppressed. And some will make a bundle from sponsors.
One suggestion would be for them to pony up and start their own games. That way, people who want sports with politics and social justice can have it all. I wonder how viable a business model that’d be.