{"id":575618,"date":"2021-06-28T15:35:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T19:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=575618"},"modified":"2021-06-28T15:35:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T19:35:59","slug":"president-biden-respects-olympic-hammer-throwers-right-to-protest-anthem-psaki-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-biden-respects-olympic-hammer-throwers-right-to-protest-anthem-psaki-says\/","title":{"rendered":"President Biden \u2018Respects\u2019 Olympic Hammer Thrower\u2019s Right To Protest Anthem, Psaki Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fpresident-biden-respects-olympic-hammer-throwers-right-to-protest-anthem-psaki-says%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=575618&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:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1325654550.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that President Joe Biden \u201crespect[s] the right\u201d of an embattled Olympic athlete to \u201cpeacefully protest,\u201d a day after Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry\u00a0turned her back on the American flag during a medal ceremony at the United States Olympic trials in Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the incident, Psaki said that Biden has not spoken specifically about Berry, but that he respects her right to \u201cpeacefully protest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president, Psaki added, is \u201cincredibly proud to be an American and has great respect for the anthem and all that it represents, especially for our men and women serving in uniform all around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, she added, Biden\u00a0\u201cwould also say, of course, that part of that pride in our country means recognizing there are moments where we are, as a country, haven\u2019t lived up to our highest ideals, and that means respecting the rights of people, granted to them in the Constitution, to peacefully protest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/i-feel-like-it-was-setup-hammer-thrower-turns-away-from-american-flag-during-national-anthem\">Daily Wire reported Sunday<\/a>, athlete Gwen Berry said she felt as though she was \u201cset up\u201d when the \u201cStar-Spangled Banner\u201d played while she was on the podium receiving her third-place medal for the hammer throw \u2014 and award that qualifies her to participate in the Tokyo Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the National Anthem began to play with the winners standing on the podium, Berry turned away from the flag so that she was facing the stands. Toward the end of the anthem, she pulled up a black t-shirt with the words \u2018Activist Athlete\u2019 on the front to cover her head,\u201d the Daily Wire noted.<\/p>\n<p>Berry says she was told the anthem would play sometime before she was on the podium receiving her medal. USA Track and Field, which handled the Olympic qualifier event, said that the anthem is scheduled to play daily at 5:20, per a \u201cpreviously published schedule,\u201d and that the hammer throw athletes happened to be on the podium at the right time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like it was setup,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/olympics\/2021\/06\/26\/gwen-berry-protest-olympic-trials\/\">Berry told The Washington Post<\/a>. \u201cI feel like they did that on purpose, and I was pissed, to be honest. I was thinking about what should I do. Eventually, I just stayed there and just swayed. I put my shirt over my head. It was real disrespectful. I know they did that on purpose, but it\u2019ll be all right. I see what\u2019s up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After receiving blowback for her protest, Berry lashed out on social media, telling her followers that \u201cpeople in American rally patriotism over basic morality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the White House backed Berry, other legislators called for her to be removed from the United States\u2019 Olympic team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t need any more activist athletes,\u201d Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) told Fox News on Monday. \u201cShe should be removed from the team. The entire point of the Olympic team is to represent the United States of America. It\u2019s the entire point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The United States Olympic Committee allows athletes to protest during national anthems, and pledged, last year, not to punish athletes that take a knee on the podium, raise their fist, or wear apparel with political slogans like, \u201cBlack Lives Matter.\u201d The International Olympic Committee is not as tolerant of political protest. According to the IOC\u2019s Rule 50, which prohibits athletes from making a statement during events or official ceremonies.<\/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 <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that President Joe Biden \u201crespect[s] the right\u201d of an embattled Olympic athlete to \u201cpeacefully protest,\u201d a day after Olympic hammer thrower Gwen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281544,"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\/06\/GettyImages-1325654550.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"President Biden \u2018Respects\u2019 Olympic Hammer Thrower\u2019s Right To Protest Anthem, Psaki Says","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1325654550.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"President Biden \u2018Respects\u2019 Olympic Hammer Thrower\u2019s Right To Protest Anthem, Psaki Says","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575618","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=575618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}