"The International Olympic Committee will now allow its social media channels to post photos of athletes protesting at the Games, according to news reports.
The move comes three days after the IOC and Tokyo 2020 organizers banned their social media teams from posting photos of athletes kneeling in protest after Great Britain’s and Chile’s women’s soccer team took a knee before their match in protest of racism and online hate.
...The IOC recently relaxed Rule 50, which forbid athletes to make any kind of ''demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.''
The gesture, though, has to be consistent with the ''Fundamental Principles of Olympism.''...Read all.
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