{"id":602196,"date":"2021-07-25T14:51:40","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T18:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=602196"},"modified":"2021-07-25T14:51:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T18:51:41","slug":"silencing-voices-lebron-james-company-blasts-olympics-over-rule-banning-medal-stand-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/silencing-voices-lebron-james-company-blasts-olympics-over-rule-banning-medal-stand-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Silencing Voices\u2019: LeBron James\u2019 Company Blasts Olympics Over Rule Banning Medal Stand Protests"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fsilencing-voices-lebron-james-company-blasts-olympics-over-rule-banning-medal-stand-protests%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=602196&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\/06\/GettyImages-150212848.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James passed on an opportunity to join Team USA, but his media company is still weighing in on the Tokyo Games from afar, blasting the International Olympic Committee for banning protests on the medal stand.<\/p>\n<p>James played for three Olympic teams, but declined to make the trip to Tokyo this summer, telling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/team-usas-jerry-colangelo-says-lebron-james-olympic-career-looks-to-be-over\">media last month<\/a> that he would focus on playing for the \u201cTune Squad,\u201d the cartoon team James is drafted to play for in \u201cSpace Jam 2,\u201d rather than on the Olympic squad.<\/p>\n<p>But James, who is known for taking public political positions, particularly over the last several years, could not resist commenting \u2014 at least indirectly \u2014 on political protests that are expected to pepper the Tokyo Games. His company, The Uninterrupted, which he shares with Maverick Carter, blasted the Olympic Committee\u2019s decision to continue to bar athletes from protesting or making political statements on the medal stand, even though the IOC lifted its ban on athlete protests elsewhere, so long as they do not interrupt competitive play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRule 50 is a rule in the Olympic Charter that bans any kind of demonstration and prohibits any opinionated political, religious or racial propaganda at the Olympic site in 2021,\u201d The Uninterrupted said on Twitter Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only time an athlete is able to speak freely is at press conferences and to the media, but not on the Olympic podium when the world is watching,\u201d the company continued.&nbsp;\u201cSimply put, we see this as a way of silencing voices, and as advocates for Athlete empowerment, we take a stand against it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company then implored the IOC to let the rest of Rule 50 fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSport is not neutral. When athletes speak up \u2013 whether from a stadium, gymnasium, or track \u2013 they start conversations and things change,\u201d the group said.&nbsp;\u201cGive athletes the chance to show up fully and to make change.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.4766355140187\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here\u2019s what you need to know about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Rule50?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Rule50<\/a> and how Olympians around the world are being silenced before the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TokyoOlympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TokyoOlympics<\/a> start \ud83d\udde3\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bMPikWnF4x\">pic.twitter.com\/bMPikWnF4x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UNINTERRUPTED (@uninterrupted) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uninterrupted\/status\/1417552801287184386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The IOC\u2019s Rule 50 previously banned all forms of political protest during the Games. After consideration, the IOC lifted the ban, allowing some forms of protest at specific times; notably, the IOC now allows athletes to \u201ctake a knee\u201d during pre-game festivities, an opportunity several soccer teams, including the United States women\u2019s soccer team, took advantage of earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>What remains of Rule 50, however, would ensnare athletes like Gwen Berry, an American Olympic medal hopeful in the hammer throw, who turned her back on the American flag during the national anthem at the U.S. Olympic Trials, and protested on the podium at the Pan-American Games.<\/p>\n<p>So far, athletes have protested just once at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: during the opening round of soccer. Women\u2019s and men\u2019s teams \u201ctook a knee\u201d ahead of the first soccer games at the Olympics to send a message about equality in light of racial slurs hurled at players from Team Great Britain online after three of the team\u2019s players missed penalty kicks in the European championships.<\/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>Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James passed on an opportunity to join Team USA, but his media company is still weighing in on the Tokyo Games from afar, blasting the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602196","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=602196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}