IOC can't stop athletes taking a knee in Tokyo: Britain's Skinner

Britain's Olympic track cycling gold medallist Callum Skinner said the International Olympic Committee would not be able to stop athletes protesting during this year's Tokyo Games.

IOC Rule 50 forbids any kind of"demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda" in venues and any other Olympic area. On Wednesday, the Games body concluded the rule should be maintained following a consultation process that started in June 2020 and involved over 3,500 athletes.IOC Athletes' Commission chief Kirsty Coventry, who led the review of Rule 50, said the majority of athletes they spoke to in the consultation process supported it.

Skinner, who won gold in the team sprint at Rio 2016, told the Times that the IOC seemed"intent on exercising control when they don't have any."Skinner, who retired in 2019 and is a member of the Global Athlete group, which aims to"create positive change in world sport", said standing up for equality was not a political act.

People get upset with BLM because it forces them to re-examine the past from the eyes of the victims, not the victors. Also, lots of 20++yo have no clue what happened then as it was removed from their school books.

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