The Team USA Council on Racial and Social Justice, an organization consisting of US athletes and Olympic sports stakeholders, has urged the US Olympic and Paralympic…
The USOPC on Thursday expressed its support for the Team USA Council on Racial and Social Justice’s recommendation to “end the prohibition of peaceful demonstrations by team members at the Olympic and Paralympic Games,” amending its charter to allow social justice and human rights protests by Olympic athletes. After the brutal police killing of George Floyd in May 2020 and the social unrest that ensued, the USOPC established a group to study Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter, a controversial provision that doesn’t allow for protests or demonstrations because sport is “neutral and must be separate from political, religious or any other type of interference.
