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I love it! Wish the NFL would have the balls to do the same. It'll be interesting to see if that dipshit soccer player will play for the U.S. team and try and protest.

Nice someone says enough is enough, fuck your protests during an unrelated event.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mo...-protest-allowed-at-tokyo-olympics/ar-BBYMWEJ

The International Olympic Committee doesn't want to see kneeling, or any other kind of political protest, at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

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© The Associated Press International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach, left, and IOC member and former swimmer Kirsty Coventry, right, speak during a press conference after the executive board meeting of the IOC, at the Olympic House, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

The IOC published new guidelines Thursday that outline the specific types of protests that will not be allowed at this summer's Games, forbidding athletes from any "gestures of a political nature, like a hand gesture or kneeling" and "displaying any political messaging, including signs or armbands" at Olympic venues.

d of play, the Olympic Village and during medal ceremonies and opening and closing ceremonies.

It also outlined times that athletes will be allowed to express political views: In press conferences, at team meetings or on digital media platforms.

"It should be noted that expressing views is different from protests and demonstrations," the guidelines say.

The IOC added that disciplinary action for any breaches of Rule 50 in Tokyo "will be taken on a case-by-case basis as necessary," in consultation with the athlete's national Olympic committee and the relevant international federation.

Thursday's guidelines come a little more than a week after IOC president Thomas Bach, in a written New Year's message, went out of his way to stress the importance of keeping politics out of sports.

"We stand firmly against the growing politicisation of sport because only in this way can we accomplish our mission to unite the world in peaceful competition," Bach wrote.

Some, however, have argued that the Olympic movement has already politicized sports. Global Athlete, which describes itself as "an athlete-led movement whose aim is to inspire and lead positive change in world sport," pointed to the IOC's promotion of a unified South and North Korean team at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang as one specific example.

"This ship has sailed," Global Athlete said in a statement. "The IOC has already politicized sport."

The IOC's guidelines come roughly five months after two American athletes were put on probation by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee for protesting during medal ceremonies at the Pan American Games. Fencer Race Imboden kneeled, and hammer thrower Gwen Berry raised a fist.

The most famous Olympic protest by American athletes, of course, came at the 1968 Games in Mexico City, when sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists on the medal stand.

The Tokyo Games are now less than 200 days away, with the opening ceremony slated for July 24.
 

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RACIST Mother Fuckers... and I bet they both like to grab pussy!
 
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