Tag: Afghanistan
American Olympians Can Protest At Games Venues
A change in attitude.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BTkL0RuyD0
1980 United States Olympic Team To Get A Museum Honor
A failed political strategy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04pwJ7iVgAg&t=2s
The United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum is opening in Colorado Springs, Colorado soon and there will be a tribute to...
Olympic Athletes Want The Right To Protest
Stifling speech, IOC style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-50hKmjcaqQ
Global protests and athletes’ speaking out against police brutality is about to meet the International Olympic Committee. John Carlos, who staged...
Jimmy Carter Orders An Olympics Boycott 40 Years Ago Today
A sports failure. Â
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoWeuLbDQHs
It was 40 years ago
today that United States President Jimmy Carter ordered the American Olympic
Team to boycott the 1980 Moscow, Soviet Union...
Forty Years Ago, American Hockey Players Won An Olympics Gold Medal...
The Cold War as a backdrop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cisTNLzMl3E
On February 24, 1980, the United States hockey team beat
Finland to win the gold medal at the...
Presidents Have Impact On American Sports
The results are documented.Â
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8PMWYSjpoQ
It is President’s Day. The chief executive of
the United States has an impact on just about every facet of...
Minor League Baseball Players Latest Pawn In Political Decisions
The politics of it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d34FVp7YFWA
Minor league baseball
players are preparing for winter baseball whether it is with Major League
Baseball backed instructional league teams...
Russia Is Upset With Japan’s Plans For The Olympics Torch Relay
Politics prevail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFPo4ZJCPh4
Russia thinks Japan is politicizing the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The Olympics have been politicized since the Greeks founded the Games around...
Presidential Impact On Society Through Sports
There is a sports impact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5LK8B_nuxs
It is President’s Day. The chief executive of the United States has an impact on just about every facet of...
Rubio Thinks The IOC Needs To Pull The 2022 Olympics...
Florida Senator Marco Rubio doesn’t think it is a very good idea for China to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
