You Can't Bring Politics Into Sports By Playing the National Anthem & Then Punish Athletes for Exeri
You can't bring politics into sports by playing the National Anthem and then punish Athletes for exercising their political First Amendment Right to protest political injustice. It just doesn't work like that. It makes the Deep State the hypocrites for who they are. It's either you're doing this for political reasons or not. You can't have it both ways. If you play the National Anthem then you better allow the National Freedom.
Fact check: Olympic athletes barred from staging protests at Tokyo Games
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/06/25/fact-check-olympic-athletes-barred-staging-protests-tokyo/5345416001/
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The claim that Black Lives Matter apparel and other forms of political expression are banned at the Olympics is TRUE, based on our research. The International Olympic Committee said it would keep a rule that bars any “demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda” for the Tokyo Games.
You better bar the National Anthem then as that falls under the umbrella of "political propaganda."
The entire point of the Olympics is they are supposed to foster peace and harmony between nations. Instead of competing with soldiers, they compete with athletes. This is known as Foreign or International Relations and international relations is part of politics. The hypocrisy of the International Olympic Committee is their very website supports social justice issues. You can't have it both ways. So you if you are going to force athletes to stand attention to national anthems you better allow them to resist injustice in their countries.
For anyone having confusion about whether the national anthem and the Olympics themselves are political.
National anthem is inseparable from politics
History shows how Francis Scott Key's poem from 1814 is inherently political
https://www.nba.com/news/morning-tip-national-anthem-history-first-amendment
Anthem played at sports events is political
https://www.nny360.com/opinion/letters/anthem-played-at-sports-events-is-political/article_18f9eb7d-01aa-513b-8aa2-e87d2a56d91d.html
Politics
https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/politics
1.1The activities of governments concerning the political relations between countries.
Political
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/political
2. of, relating to, or involving the state or its government:
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/state
7. a politically unified people occupying a definite territory; nation.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/28/sport/gwen-berry-us-olympic-trials-spt-intl/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/videos/sports/2019/08/11/usa-fencer-kneels-hammer-throw-fist-anthem-ceremony-vpx.hln