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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sports should be a place that is politics free. Represent your country and be proud , if not go to the liberal Olympics [/quote]
Which fields should and shouldn't be politics-free? Many politicians are lawyers before they run for office. So clearly politics is ok for lawyers. Some enter politics after a career in business like George W. Bush. Some enter politics after a career in entertainment like Reagan. Trump was both a businessman and an entertainer and spent years expressing himself politically. So clearly those are fine. What about Jim Jordan and Tommy Tuberville, who entered politics after being athletes and coaches?

If you ask me, anybody not subject to the Hatch Act is free to express themselves politically.[/quote]

And Team USA is entitled to prohibit them from representing the US in international competition if it so chooses. Sports teams can bench players and leagues can ban them. Actions have consequences.

Here the skier’s comments were in poor taste. He didn’t have to answer the reporter’s question by giving a divisive sound bite. [b]He could have said he was representing the US, a country that has supported his Olympic dream[/b]. Anything beyond his athletic performance didn’t belong at an Olympics presser. [/quote]
That is exactly how Olympians who lived behind the Iron Curtain expressed themselves. You must be one of those communist bots PP. [/quote]

It’s called having class. While President Trump reacted poorly, the American people knew what they were getting when they re-elected him. You may hate his guts, but he is the President and has a right to comment on US athletes casting aspersions on [b]the country that helped them get to the Olympics [/b]and whose flag under which they compete.

Just say you’re proud to represent the US at the Olympics. If you’re not, then don’t represent it. Simple. [/quote]

Just FYI.  The United States does not fund it's Olympic athletes.  Athletes are funded through moms and dads and families and others with good will.  THe US Olympic Committee isa private organization.  So, no, the Grand Orange Pedophile has no special "right".[/quote]

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