I am with Mexico 1968 compensation to be paid for heroic truth telling against racist still 2day USA

I'm a bit ambivalent but have to think this is a bridge to far.

WTF...smh

Does this make it harder for an Olympian to declare that his god drove him on to win while others there had the same god? Maybe it means god is also a sportsman. IDK.

AND::::::::::::: it has been rumored they will be allowing TRANS-WOMEN to compete as REAL WOMEN. WTF!

Trans-mania is a virus. Making people become totally stupid, to the point of supporting the total denial of their daughters' rights. It is a mental illness.

The absolute vast majority of the athletes who train and/or for the Olympics live at or below the poverty level before, during, and after their Olympic participation.

The Olympic committee members make $Billions upon $Billions off of playing venues off one another, product contracts, endorsements, along with real estate developers, construction companies, politicians, and their contributors!

The Olympic’s like FIFA are nothing but overtly wealthy individuals governing and profiting off of non profit’s organization’s and corporations!

Olympic committee members, just like FIFA committee members are nothing more greedy power hungry Overpaid administrators!!!

All the more reason to protest any bloody thing they please.
I hope as many as wish to violate the IOC's prohibition.
Compete in your sport, win your medals, and protest your asses off.
The IOC can go kick rocks.
I hope every country participates in a mass protest during the opening ceremony.

Tell me "no", and watch me "go".
That's how I look at it.

If I had a t-shirt business, I'd be offering to print up protest shirts with anything
they wanted on them, for anyone who wanted one.
I love the idea of defying authority.
I'd be happy to help them if I could.

"But the Olympics are no stranger to symbolic protest. Had the announced guidelines been in effect in 1968, for instance, the iconic raised fists of American sprinters John Carlos and Tommie Smith would have been prohibited." No one should forget that for this simple gesture both were banned for life from competition. They are now formally codifying what up to now has been an uneven application of the rules. When South Africa was banned, all SA athletes were banned, when Russia is banned, all her athletes get to compete.

When Tommie Smith tried to compete after his banishment, all athletes were told that if they competed in a track meet where tommie competed, they would be banished themselves.

While I don't want to start an argument, there's a couple of points here:

Number one, "free speech" is about government regulation of speech and expression. From the IOC website: "The IOC is a not-for-profit independent international organisation made up of volunteers." Basically, they get to set whatever rules they want, and if athletes want to be in the Olympics, they agree to it. I understand that many athletes come from oppressive regimes where they don't get to exercise free speech, but those athletes aren't going to be any more free at the Olympics.

Number two, I find it understandable that the IOC wants to keep the spotlight on the events and away from politics, especially in an American election year and with international tensions as they are. The majority of athletes undoubtedly have personal websites where they can explain in full what's on their mind.

I think the prohibition itself will bring attention to the controversy.

Fascists...

An olympian is there to represent their country. An olympic event is not a time to protest anything. With every protest it could cause tension with other nations. The olympics is about bringing people together not creating rifts between them.