MorganKane
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As a competitor however, you are in fact representing yourself as well. Athletes aren’t robots — you want to perform well for yourself, your teammates, or whatever it may be.
The incident of turning her back from the flag was a silent protest — it wasn’t a speech, nor major interruption. The question should simply be asked of her; “Why did you do it? “IF there’s something in a contract of her’s that disallows such a thing, then that can be taken up between that agency and herself — not become a mainstream politicized narrative for every Tom, Dick and Harry to fixate on.
Again, IF we want to mandate various rituals and whatnot, then we’re turning North Korean like.
So you find requiring people who represent our country to do so with some dignity to be like North Korea?
Sorry but its not acceptable to disrespect your country and flag when you voluntary signed up to do so.
You should be fired from that, just like you would if you disrespected your company.
You can protest all you want but on your own time.
Not the time you voluntarily gave to the country.
Yes, it was speech when she turned her back on the country and had a shirt that said "activist athlete".
It was planned from the beginning. She did it for the mainstream political narrative so thats where it will be discussed.
I say fire anyone that does not respect the country in this case.