Shot putter Raven Saunders raised her arms above her head on the podium and formed an ‘X’ with her wrists on Sunday night as she claimed her silver medal, in the highest-profile protest yet at the Tokyo Olympics.
The 25-year-old American explained the crossing of her wrists as ‘the intersection of where all people who are oppressed meet’.
Saunders’ protest came after Gwen Berry, perhaps the best known ‘activist athlete’, on Sunday vowed to continue to ‘represent the oppressed’.
Berry, 31, staged a high profile protest during the Olympic trials on June 26 – turning to face the stands, putting her hands on her hips and then holding up a t-shirt bearing the words ‘athlete activist’.
Berry’s actions were seen as disrespectful by many, with conservative commentators calling for her to be kicked out of the Olympic squad as a result.
Raven Saunders, of the United States, poses with her silver medal on women’s shot put at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday. Her protest is the most high profile in Tokyo to date.
Booo!
Both should be removed from Team USA – and have their medals rescinded!
Go find a different country!
Female shotputters don’t get many endorsements after
the Olympics, so the money that Soros’ operatives will give
her later on are welcome.
(I sure hope she doesn’t get her picture on a Wheaties box.)
She’ll be changing tires at a Walmart, just long enough for a back injury claim.
And yet we continue to publish this behavior, continuing to give her the media coverage she is looking for. As long as the behavior gets the media attention they want, it will continue. Any disrespect should be an immediate ejection from the games and a forfeit of the medal.
Sick and tired of all this $—t
Give this individual media attention and they stay around. Let it go, POOF and gone.
This is why I don’t watch sports anymore. Quit giving these A-holes media coverage.
NO place for politics & that SHOULD BE the RULE !!!!!