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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

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To: Olog-hai

Women’s protest march:

Leader: “What do we want!”

Crowd: “We don’t know!”

Leader: “When do we want it!”

Crowd: “Now!”


41 posted on 07/21/2021 9:38:39 PM PDT by Nachoman (Following victory, its best to reload.)
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To: Olog-hai

so what!


42 posted on 07/21/2021 10:18:32 PM PDT by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: Olog-hai
We'll see how this goes over with the British and other countries soccer fans.

Have a feeling it will not go over well.

43 posted on 07/21/2021 10:27:01 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: Noumenon

Ditto. Don’t care anymore. Piss on them all.


44 posted on 07/21/2021 10:42:35 PM PDT by Qui is (Biden spews and Harris swallows)
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To: Noumenon

I’m glad I never was interested in sports. I found it boring. I always thought the Olympics were a crashing bore.

I was into music. I used to be a drummer.


45 posted on 07/21/2021 11:17:35 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: Olog-hai

Screw the Olympics. The last Olympian I met and talked to, a real gentlemen, was some guy named “Jesse Owens”. All class, all patriot, all gentleman.

Sorry that a bunch of spoiled leftists and black racists have spoiled the games for the majority of American athletes who are the ignored patriots, gentlemen/ladies, and unspoiled egotists.

PS: Addendum: Just looked up my autograph collection and found that I met another 1936 black US Olympian, John Woodruff, “who won a gold medal in the 800 meter run”, at a National Holocaust Panel Discussion on July 17, 1996(?). The program pamphlet was undated but it would have been on the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Olympics.

Another fine but often overlooked Olympian, gentleman and patriot.

Some of have class. Others, only ass. That’s the difference between “then and now”, “them and whatever we have now crawling out from under the hate-rug”.


46 posted on 07/21/2021 11:30:50 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Olog-hai

There is nothing more pathetic than virtue signaling by pampered athletes...

Boycott time!


47 posted on 07/21/2021 11:46:08 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: a fool in paradise

The New Zealanders are practicing kneeling for the future Chinese conquest—(of course they don’t realize it...yet).


48 posted on 07/21/2021 11:47:35 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: MAGAthon

Japan needs to deport the kneelers immediately...and lifetime ban them from any future travel to their country.


49 posted on 07/21/2021 11:48:50 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: cgbg

Worth repeating: .....”There is nothing more pathetic than virtue signaling by pampered athletes”.....


50 posted on 07/21/2021 11:51:39 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: Noumenon
I haven't seen any of it because when Athletes, who are privileged to be at a host country, use the event to make political points they've entirely lost any of my attention whatsoever!
51 posted on 07/21/2021 11:55:07 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids

The Lake Placid Winter games in 1980 are a favorite of mine because of the Miracle on Ice and Eric Heiden winning 5 gold medals in speed skating. The 1984 Summer Games were cool too even if the Soviet Bloc did not show up, Mary Lou Retton carried the show and it was the height of Reagan. Sarajevo winter 1984 was nice too, loved Scott Hamilton and the UK’s Torville and Dean on ice. BTW, IIRC, when the two Black runners from the USA who won the gold and bronze at Mexico City, 1968, they were disqualified for showing the Black Power salute. Shouldn’t these knee pad buster be given the same treatment? Avery Brundage did now play around. I also miss Jim McCay, he was one class act.


52 posted on 07/21/2021 11:55:11 PM PDT by MrLucky1966 (GOVT.SYS CORRUPTED! RUN GUN.COM? (Y/Y) GUN.COM NOT FOUND, EXECUTE BASEBALL.BAT? (Y/Y))
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To: caww

we can all just hope that the covid insanity closes down the Limpics and the little boys and girls can all go home.....


53 posted on 07/21/2021 11:56:15 PM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry

Well that’s certainly not going to happen. The revenue flow itself will keep them there not to mention for the host country. But I get what you’re saying.


54 posted on 07/22/2021 12:00:17 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: Olog-hai

I used to watch the Olympics, but haven’t watched them since 1972.

Mrs. Chandler and I became newlyweds just as the 1976 Olympics were opening. We had better things to do. Ever since.


55 posted on 07/22/2021 12:07:26 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Olog-hai

Good luck with your f-ing Woke olympics.
Not one moment will it be on my tv.
Get woke, go broke.
Hey sponsors, you be wasting your money there.


56 posted on 07/22/2021 4:33:09 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (You Go Donald.)
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To: Olog-hai

This is one reason I don’t watch sports anymore.


57 posted on 07/22/2021 7:38:56 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Olog-hai

May a team of sumo wrestlers flatten Britain’s women’s soccer team. /sarc


58 posted on 07/22/2021 10:08:13 AM PDT by Wuli
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