{"id":351151,"date":"2021-03-30T14:46:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T18:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=351151"},"modified":"2021-03-30T14:46:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T18:46:18","slug":"us-olympic-committee-releases-protest-guidelines-clears-athletes-to-raise-fists-kneel-during-national-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-olympic-committee-releases-protest-guidelines-clears-athletes-to-raise-fists-kneel-during-national-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"US Olympic Committee Releases Protest Guidelines, Clears Athletes To Raise Fists, Kneel During National Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-olympic-committee-releases-protest-guidelines-clears-athletes-to-raise-fists-kneel-during-national-anthem%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=351151&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4570.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Following up on a decision made last December to allow Olympic athletes to \u201cpeacefully and respectfully\u201d engage in demonstrations for racial and social justice, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee released guidelines, Tuesday, delineating which forms of protest are \u201cacceptable\u201d during this year\u2019s Olympic trials.<\/p>\n<p>As the Daily Wire\u2019s Ashe Schow reported, the USOPC decided in December that athletes participating in 2020 Olympic trials \u201cwill not be sanctioned for \u2018peacefully and respectfully\u2019 demonstrating in support of social justice causes,\u201d and that the committee planned to do away with guidelines effectively preventing any kind of \u201cdemonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda\u201d at Olympic sites or during official ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>The USOPC released its updated guidelines on Tuesday, clearing the way for Olympic athletes to engage in protest, though the guidelines do severely limit the options athletes have for demonstrating, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/wireStory\/raised-fists-kneeling-anthem-us-olympic-trials-76770104\">according to ABC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe USOPC released a nine-page document Tuesday to offer guidance about the sort of \u2018facial and social demonstrations\u2019 that will and won\u2019t be allowed by the hundreds who will compete in coming months for spots on the U.S. team,\u201d the outlet reported. \u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Athletes will be allowed to raise their fists or kneel during the national anthem, and athletes will be allowed to wear \u201chats or face masks\u201d with specific political phrases like \u201cBlack Lives Matter,\u201d or words like \u201cequality\u201d or \u201cjustice.\u201d Athletes are prevented from wearing any recognized hate symbol and cannot protest by impeding the field of play or by causing trouble for other athletes during competition.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, back in December, the USOPC seemed to draw the line at \u201cdivisive demonstrations,\u201d but instead, in the new guidelines, the committee simply requires that all protests have the goal of \u201cadvancing racial and social justice; or promoting the human dignity of individuals or groups that have historically been underrepresented, minoritized, or marginalized in their respective societal context.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the Daily Wire has noted, Americans have shown a declining interest in sporting events that embrace a social justice message. The NBA, specifically, l<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/get-woke-go-broke-nba-ratings-cratering\">ost millions of viewers following its decision<\/a> to allow its athletes to engage in protests and demonstrations following George Floyd\u2019s death in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>The USOPC does seem to acknowledge that racial and social justice demonstrations could be costly, and warns athletes, in its guidelines, that it cannot be held responsible if third parties drop sponsorships or refuse to endorse participants who engage in protests, even if the USOPC itself will not punish athletes who violate the Olympic rules.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to athletes, the committee makes clear that it cannot \u201cprevent \u2026 third parties from making statements or taking actions of their own, and that each Participant must make their own personal decision about the risks and benefits that may be involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Olympic Games, which were postponed from 2020, will take place in Tokyo, Japan. Next year\u2019s Winter Olympic Games are slated to take place in Beijing, China, where political protests become more complicated.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.&nbsp;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on a decision made last December to allow Olympic athletes to \u201cpeacefully and respectfully\u201d engage in demonstrations for racial and social justice, the United States Olympic and Paralympic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311400,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4570.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"US Olympic Committee Releases Protest Guidelines, Clears Athletes To Raise Fists, Kneel During National Anthem","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4570.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"US Olympic Committee Releases Protest Guidelines, Clears Athletes To Raise Fists, Kneel During National Anthem","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}