NPR Cookie Consent and Choices

  • 📰 NPR
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 12 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 8%
  • Publisher: 63%

United States Headlines News

U.S. shot-putter Raven Saunders briefly held her arms above her head in the shape of an X after accepting her silver medal. Saunders later explained it represented the 'intersection of where all people who are oppressed meet.'

” below to learn about and use cookie management tools to limit use of cookies when you visit NPR’s sites.

You can adjust your cookie choices in those tools at any time. If you click “” below, you acknowledge that your cookie choices in those tools will be respected and that you otherwise agree to the use of cookies on NPR’s sites.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

This is called the “banana grab stretch” and shouldn’t be considered a protest action. If she had reached a bit higher it would have been the “coconut grab stretch”. These two stretches will be included in the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Record lows in viewership. Wonder if the increased politics in the Olympics this time around is related.

Well ok

Is this where she will bash America but refuse to leave like the rest of them?

PLEASE DO NOT put this person on a cereal box😳

That's a woman?

makes for interest

Hopefully GiveMe1Shot's protest inspires her podium partner and gold medalist from china to stand up to chineseoppression. One can hope, right?

I’m into this. Let’s talk about how to make our world and country better. Silence doesn’t change the conversation.

The only way this is a political statement is if you believe supporting oppressed or marginalized populations is unique to a political party. She didn't push for any legislation or call out any specific groups. This isn't political. It's basic human rights.

The olympics are a joke

No darn way I’d let this person ever represent the USA. Ever again. What an embarrassment. If he/she wants to protest let them do it on their own time.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 96. in US

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

NPR Cookie Consent and Choices
Source: NPRHealth - 🏆 144. / 63 Read more »

NPR Cookie Consent and Choicesthanks AI stinks. This would be interesting to someone but not me.
Source: NPR - 🏆 96. / 63 Read more »

NPR Cookie Consent and Choicesnice 👍🏾 Did she also invite the non-Aussie silver medal winner up…?
Source: NPR - 🏆 96. / 63 Read more »

NPR Cookie Consent and Choicesplanetmoney this is terrible news
Source: NPR - 🏆 96. / 63 Read more »

NPR Cookie Consent and ChoicesThey could just pay them more. 😡 thanks They’re just doing it for the tax write-off. 😒
Source: NPR - 🏆 96. / 63 Read more »

NPR Cookie Consent and ChoicesI don't know what they were expecting to happen. Dr. Luc Montagnier reveals how Covid-19 is a lab accident He was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the identification AIDS.He currently works at University in China The accident was said to have taken place in the Wuhan National Biosafety lab Whom. For God's sake. Whom.
Source: NPR - 🏆 96. / 63 Read more »