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Athletes Take the Knee at Olympics for First Time Ever
Newsweek ^
| 7/21/21 4:32 AM EDT
| Ewan Palmer
Posted on 07/21/2021 7:47:44 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Great Britain’s women’s soccer team has taken the knee before their Tokyo 2020 Olympic soccer match against Chile, the first time the protest to highlight racial injustice has been performed at the Games.
The women’s team had previously confirmed that it would be taking the knee before its matches in Tokyo after England’s men’s soccer team also did before every game at the Euro 2020 competition this summer.
Chile’s players responded by also taking the knee in the Sapporo Dome in Japan’s capital, which is being played without fans in attendance as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
New Zealand’s women’s soccer team said they would also take the knee before its opening match of the Tokyo Olympics against Australia later on Wednesday. …
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: anthem; antiamericanism; baka; fakeracism; nationalanthem; obamalegacy; olympics; orinpikkusu; takeaknee
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posted on
07/21/2021 7:47:44 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
07/21/2021 7:51:17 PM PDT
by
Noumenon
(The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
To: Olog-hai
Either stay in the Locker Room while the Anthem’s are being played or don’t claim to represent your respective Country’s.
Just DON’T DISRESPECT your Country.
To: Olog-hai
We’ve come along way from the patriotic 1976 olympics. Seems like our global rulers want to do away with the olympics too
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posted on
07/21/2021 7:52:08 PM PDT
by
Archie Bunker on steroids
(You may not take an interest in politics, but politics takes an interest in you "Pericles" )
To: Olog-hai
On your knees girls... LOL
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posted on
07/21/2021 7:52:16 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
07/21/2021 7:54:06 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
(Pronouns? I need no stinkin pronouns!)
To: Noumenon
Didn’t plan too. These “athletes” don’t represent this country or this country’s ideals. I am sure there are some good ones. Feel bad for them Olympics and most sports are a joke now.
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posted on
07/21/2021 7:54:38 PM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them...God wins. Trump always wins. . )
To: Noumenon
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posted on
07/21/2021 7:55:16 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: Noumenon
Not watching any of it.
Wise choice.
So much more to do in a day than watch a bunch of narcissistic maroons embarrass their country.
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posted on
07/21/2021 7:55:19 PM PDT
by
farming pharmer
(fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
To: Noumenon
Not watching any of it.
Not for a minute!
To: Olog-hai
Just think, this kneeling BS all started when a backup NFL QB wanted some media love.
To: DesertRhino
On your knees girls... LOL
Brilliant!
To: Archie Bunker on steroids
May as well do away with them, I won’t be watching and I am sure I will not be alone.
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posted on
07/21/2021 7:57:25 PM PDT
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Olog-hai
This is a pretext for an assault on the Western World by way of genocide ....
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posted on
07/21/2021 7:57:59 PM PDT
by
SecondAmendment
(This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !)
To: farming pharmer
I used to enjoy the Olympics. Not any anymore.
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posted on
07/21/2021 7:58:46 PM PDT
by
Noumenon
(The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
To: Olog-hai
What a joke this has become. “I’m going to take a knee because all the cool kids are doing it. And, it’ll get posted on Tic Tok or something.
Kinda like all those kids skipping school for some flimsy socialist reason.
Pfffft... lame.
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posted on
07/21/2021 7:59:09 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
To: Dan in Wichita
As an attack on the National Anthem too. Over a lie.
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posted on
07/21/2021 7:59:18 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Noumenon
Leftists destroy all that is good.
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posted on
07/21/2021 8:00:21 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Archie Bunker on steroids
Imagine if athletes from all western nations adopted the prevailing socialist hand gestures during the 1936 Olympics.
The current generation will go down as the most embarrassing in recorded history.
To: SecondAmendment
More like an attack on the USA specifically.
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posted on
07/21/2021 8:01:01 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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