The Olympic Games is no place for protests, most Australian athletes say

The Australian Olympic Committee Athlete’s Commission, led by pole vault gold medallist Steve Hooker, has been consulting with athletes after the International Olympic Committee announced it was seeking feedback on the Olympic Charter's controversial Rule 50, which bans political statements and demonstrations at Olympic venues.

Thirty-four per cent of respondents that debuted during the 2010s backed the right of competitors to express themselves at the Games. The results of the survey and a series of recommendations have been forwarded to the IOC’s Athletics Commission.Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter states “no kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in Olympic sites, venues or other areas".

A new survey of Australian Jocks has found the majority don't give a shit about social injustice.

Can we protest athletes not protesting? Seems extremely protestable basalted

Agree it’s pathetic!

Guess who controls Olympic Committee in Australia and their athletes...

Good

Duhh moment right there

Weak

Let's focus on corruption in the IOC then?

Why? What’s their problem? Oblivious or scared?

privilege to not care

You can’t divorce sports from the politics ...,politics determines the social structures in place which in turn determines your athletes....

456 white privileged boomers surveyed

nonsense..if there no issues why will people protest..you cant justify a wrong by muting someone..all because media want to turn their head away, people want the attention back by doing so.

Olympic Games or Olympic protests? If I want to see a bunch of losers I'd do looking through the window, not tv

Nobility isn’t a gesture it’s a behaviour.

Why write this? It’s not important in any way and you’re just using this to anger people for clicks. You’ve also cherry-picked the data to make it look worse. Most recent athletes support it. Shameful.

This issue should have been expunged, deleted, removed, erased, forever banned after the 1936 games.

Well, Australians are rather compliant creatures, more than happy to give the police ever greater control over their lives. It's hardly surprising these athletes want to follow the rules. Also, they probably don't want their sporting & professional lives ruined like Norman's.

Australian athletes are selfish overpaid cowards, survey finds

Peter Norman was a legend that we maltreated

That wasn't a protest, that was a statement.

Athletes are there for their brawn not their brains, just saying ...

Not the place for drug cheats either---how about concentrating on that

Australian Olympic Athletes mostly white?

I'm not with you ... this is the perfect place for protests, especially if that protest is about equality.

Scrapping Olympics all together will be better

Pfffffft

What's the Olympic games?

So they're greedy cowards with no morale backbone.

Good. Time ad a place for everything.

And we give a damn because...?

Cowards

Given recent Australian Olympic performances, the podium is not something they need be concerned about.

They need to read more. Understand the power and value of a voice. Peter Norman is by far our greatest Olympian ever.

Precious self-centred little show animals.

Are you kidding me? Olympic is/was always political. - 1964: South Africa is banned from the Tokyo Olympics - 1980 Summer Olympics - 1984 Summer Olympics - A lot of people protest against the Beijing Olympics because of china's human rights record

This does not apply if person being protested against is a Chinese swimmer.

As is this spectator.

keep politics out of the OG. PERIOD. Not the RIGHT place .

Says alot about the way they were educated and not knowing about a legend like Peter Norman and what he faced from hate and career sabotage from his own Australians. May he RIP.

Yeah - it was great the first time - now it's just a bunch of unoriginal metooers.

so they should be

Maybe not so much opposed to it as sick of it.

Can we have one event, a universal sporting showpiece that is not politicised or used as a platform? Would be refreshing. I think the Olympics is an event that brings the world together, so no need for grand standing.

How fortunate that Peter Norman didn’t feel that way.

Because who gives a fuck what a javelin throwers politics are

Why not?

And that is why Peter Norman will clearly remain our best Olympic Athlete of all time. He practiced the Olympic values, because he believed them. He wasn’t in it for the money, unlike some. He didn’t worry about offending sponsors or officials.

Get over it

How disappointing

can't upset the sponsors yo

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