Posted on 03/31/2021 8:21:32 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee will not sanction athletes for raising their fists or kneeling during the national anthem at Olympic trials, previewing a contentious policy it expects to stick to when many of those same athletes head to Tokyo this summer.
The USOPC released a nine-page document Tuesday to offer guidance about the sort of “racial and social demonstrations” that will and won’t be allowed by the hundreds who will compete in coming months for spots on the U.S. team. The document comes three months after the federation, heeding calls from its athletes, determined it would not enforce longstanding rules that ban protests at the Olympics.
The International Olympic Committee’s Rule 50 is an ongoing source of friction across the globe. Many U.S. athletes have spearheaded the call for more freedom in using their platform at the Olympics to advance social justice causes. But others, both in and outside the U.S., balk at widespread rule changes that they fear could lead to demonstrations that sully their own Olympic experiences.
With guidance from its recently formed Council on Racial and Social Justice, the USOPC released a list of do’s and don’ts as part of its document. The list of allowable forms of demonstration included holding up a fist, kneeling during the anthem and wearing hats or face masks with phrases such as “Black Lives Matter” or words such as “equality” or “justice.”
Not allowed are hate symbols, as defined by the Anti-Defamation League, and actions that would impede others from competing, such as laying down in the middle of the track.
“I have confidence you’ll make the best decision for you, your sport and your fellow competitors,” Sarah Hirshland, the CEO of the USOPC, wrote in a letter to athletes to address the new guidance.
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Ok, so I wont be watching
Can you wear a MAGA hat?
Turning it off and refusing any support for olympic pukes is hereby approved.
Let’s them protest treatment of Chinese in Hong Kong. Let’s see them protest slave labor in China, much of which will have made the apparel and souvenirs of the Olympics.
A lot of people will not be watching because of this. I hope they feel the financial deficit this creates. I have not watched football or basketball this year because of the same thing. To be frank, I do not miss it.
If they have no respect for our country they cannot represent it.
Between the freaks claiming they changed gender, the rapes, the child molestation, the anti-American hatred, the anti-White racism, why would any American support these silly games called the Olympics??
No airtime in this house whatsoever.
That’s funny, because the Olympics was suppose to be non-political
I collect Omega Olympic time pieces and love wearing them.
I may just leave the Olympic ones in my safe as well my Omega Stop Watches, umbrellas, towels, etc until they stop this nonsense
Make sports great again and simply entertain us
Ok. Pass on watching it.
Avery Brundage is spinning in his grave.
Real simple: You do ANYTHING but standing...just standing (and perhaps sing)...during the Anthem qualifies you for immediate expulsion from the US Team. You will also forfeit your medal, and being banned forever from ever competing under the US flag. You will also be sent back on the next flight to the US.
If you really wanted to go medieval on them, let that flight out of wherever they are be to anywhere EXCEPT the US, with the immediate stripping of their American citizenship. They can’t go back and get their stuff, and their bank accounts would be frozen. If they hate the US all that much, let them go somewhere they think is better.
How about the OK symbol?
Damn Skippy! Ditto!
That’s O tay by me.
“If they have no respect for our country they cannot represent it.”
Agreed.
That’s fine, but just don’t bother to return to the USA.
F them!
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