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The IOC Will Lose the Podium Protest Battle
Earlier today, the International Olympic Committee custodia cover huawei y7 2019 (IOC) reaffirmed cover samsung j5 2017 azzurro its position outlawing podium protests at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, dove comprare cover samsung s6 which are custodia cover iphone 6 6s tentatively to be held in the summer of 2021.
In doing so, the organization has again grossly miscalculated the weight of the threats that they are making, and have set up a battle that they cannot win among a growing mountain of battles facing the global cover samsung s5 mini trasparente sports body.
When these threats were custodia per samsung edge first made, the focus in swimming was around protests designed to criticize internal political structures custodia cover huawei p20 custodia per samsung j3 hoesje tablet samsung a 9.7 pollici of sports, like the protests by Mack Horton and Duncan Scott custodia samsung a3 2016 a libro over the doping response to Chinese swimmer Sun Yang at last summer World Championships.
But more and more, the focus of the IOC reaffirmed policy will shift back to where it began: the stage of racial injustice.
When Tommie Smith and John Carlos for raising their fists on cover samsung galaxy grand neo plus gt-i9060i the podium of the 200 meter run at the samsung galaxy note4 custodia 1968 Summer Olympics, then IOC president, an American and renowned Nazi apologist Avery Brundage, came down hard on the American duo, forcing the United States Olympic Committee to expel them from the Games.
But the world in 2021 will be very different, especially for the Americans, who live at the epicenter over the last month of cover samsung j5 2017 teschio an outcry about the treatment of black people cover samsung galaxy grand neo plus i9060i following the death of unarmed black man cover samsung s5 mini unicorno George aliexpress cover samsung grand neo plus Floyd in the hands of Minneapolis police.
While the conflict is keyboard cover samsung galaxy tab a nothing new, the 2020 revival of generations old themes of racism has shifted the culture enough that USOPC president Sarah Hirshland was forced to apologize to American athletes over punishments levied following podium protests at the 2019 Pan American Games that happened just a year ago.
The NFL too has recanted its policy after quashing on field player protests in an effort to appeal to a certain portion of its demographic that loathed them when Colin Kaepernick acted as the movement lightning rod in 2016.
Even NASCAR, which among major American professional sports has the biggest problems with diversity, has seen the seeds of a cultural shift. Bubba Wallace, the only black driver in NASCAR top level Cup Series, will drive a car this weekend emblazoned with the blacklivesmatter hashtag and other symbols related to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Note: within an hour of the publishing of this article, NASCAR banned the Confederate flag at its events.
The American calculation, at least, cover samsung j3 2017 marmo has shifted to the samsung custodia flip wallet in similpelle per galaxy s6 edge point for sporting organizations where they risk more by killing the movement than by supporting it.
The IOC executive board has 1 American among its ranks, Anita DeFrantz, who is, ironically, a black woman. It will be up to her to impress upon the IOC, often shielded from the world in gilded castles, the earnestness of the movement. USOPC CEO Sarah Hirshland will be given no choice but to support the athletes. That a matter of existential crisis cover samsung galaxy s8 plus for the USOPC, which is already teetering under mounting cover samsung galaxy trend ebay scandal domestically. Any punishment of American athletes would lead to the loss of sponsorship at such a drastic rate that they would immediately have to retract their statement immediately…
