Tokyo Summer Olympic Games The plan originally scheduled for 2020 will start in a week, but in the year before that, pandemics, controversies, and social justice issues have also followed. Although the Olympics will still be held a year later, starting from 2020, there are still some things lurking in society.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Tokyo Olympics will not allow foreign or domestic fans to enter the stadium.
The other is the ongoing social justice protests that athletes can engage in. The IOC still does not want demonstrations like the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, when Tommy Smith and John Carlos stood on the medal podium after the 200-meter dash and raised their fists for black power.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) uses that moment to suppress these moments in the future. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics postponed due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic may become a pressure point for the International Olympic Committee.
Although protests and demonstrations may seem popular for some athletes, some senior U.S. Olympic athletes believe that such protests should not take place in sports fields, stadiums, or other venues where the Olympic Games are held.
Some well-known American athletes who are Olympic veterans believe that athletes can use their identities to protest anything they want, but they just can’t be in the arena where the game takes place.
The world’s top scorer Brady Ellison participated in the Olympics for the fourth time. He won two silver medals in team competitions (2012, 2016) and individual bronze medals (2016). He said that the sports field is not the time or place for such demonstrations.
“I really believe that athletes should be able to say and do whatever they want to do within a reasonable range,” Ellison said Weekly newspaper“For me, the Olympics has never been political. It has never been about politics. Now I think it is becoming a drama. World politicians can learn a lot from Olympic athletes. No one starts war. , No one fights… we go out to play.”
April Ross, an American beach volleyball player, responded to some of these comments, saying that she supports Americans’ right to freedom of speech on the international stage—just like in Tokyo for the next three weeks.
“I really want to respect the athletes’ right to freedom of speech and want to promote what is really important to them,” said Ross, who won the silver medal with Jennifer Casey at the 2012 London Olympics and then in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Jennings won the bronze medal with Kelly Walsh in the Olympics. “I think there is a way for them to understand and hope to maintain the values of the US team.”
Rose will partner with Alix Klinemen in these games as the No. 2 seeded team.
Many American athletes going to the Tokyo Olympics fully support their fellow Americans in protesting whatever they choose to protest, whether they are against police brutality against minorities, racial inequality, or any other social problems that have arisen since the murder. George Freud In 2020.
Gwen Berry, an American hammer player, qualified for the Tokyo Olympic team, but made more headlines last month when she turned her back on the national anthem at the Olympic Trial Medal Ceremony. She said she felt that the national anthem was played. It is “a setting”. “
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At the 2019 Pan American Games, Berry protested Star Spangled Banner Depart from the flag. At the U.S. Olympic team trials held in Eugene, Oregon last month, she turned her back to the national flag and put on a black T-shirt with the words “Activist Athlete” on it while the song was playing.
Ellison is the person most promising to win individual gold medals and recurve archery team gold medals. He said that athletes should speak out through interviews and social media rather than on the sports field. He called it a slap in the face of soldiers and half of the country.
“I think athletes should have this voice and use this voice. This is not the time to be on the sports field,” said Ellison, the world’s number one shooter, who will participate in the Olympics. “If you want, you can do it on social media, if you want, you can do it in the interview. It’s just not on the sports field.
“There must be a way to do things. There must be a way to convey your message, not to anger those who fight for the flag and die for the flag. Don’t disrespect those who serve in the military.”
The Olympics kicks off in Tokyo on Friday, and the opening ceremony starts at 7:30pm EST National Broadcasting Corporation.
