U.S. athletes protest Trump on
medals stand at Pan Am Games
Associated Press,
by
Luis Andres Henao
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
8/11/2019 4:05:23 PM
Lima, Peru—Two Americans used their medal-winning moments at the Pan American Games to draw attention to social issues back home that they feel are spiraling out of control. During their medals ceremonies at the sports festival in Lima, fencer Race Imboden took a knee and hammer thrower Gwen Berry raised her fist. Both athletes could represent the U.S. less than a year from now at the Tokyo Olympics, where similar protests would be seen by a much wider audience. “Racism, gun control, mistreatment of immigrants, and a president who spreads hate are at the top of a long list” of America’s problems, Imboden said
Reply 1 - Posted by:
chase9365 8/11/2019 4:10:01 PM (No. 149252)
Hey you little twits! The reason you are on that podium is because there were people who came before you that had the GUTS to defend the way of life you have been privileged to live. You haven't accomplished anything MEMORABLE.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 8/11/2019 4:42:59 PM (No. 149264)
okayyyy..
are there any AMERICANS on the team?
have them put on a MAGA cap..
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MOBeef4u 8/11/2019 4:50:07 PM (No. 149271)
I don’t know, I kinda feel like the raised arm of the hammer throw guy looks a lot like the Nazi salute. And all that matters is what I feel, right?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
aasilver 8/11/2019 5:01:17 PM (No. 149276)
I didn't know that the PanAm's allowed trannys to compete.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Mekkkk 8/11/2019 5:08:35 PM (No. 149278)
Traitors
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/11/2019 5:11:56 PM (No. 149280)
No comment on her. He is a model, a dj, etc.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DARling 8/11/2019 5:16:17 PM (No. 149282)
SJW take the joy out of everything. It is all about them and the million and ten things they are offended by at any given time. Never about team spirit or love of country. I can't remember the last time an American Olympic team gave me anything to cheer about. O.K., maybe Mary Lou Retton at the 1984 games. Football, all major awards shows and perhaps the Olympic games are pretty much dead to me. I won't support those who bite the hands that feed them.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 8/11/2019 5:20:24 PM (No. 149284)
Let's see if the committee comes through with "consequences." The response should be nothing less than expulsion. Creatures like this needed to be shunned or ignored, but they don't need to participate in U.S.A.-sponsored activities. Behind these sorry two are twenty others who worked and competed for that team position. Let the runners-up have their places.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/11/2019 5:29:25 PM (No. 149291)
Some people do not have the tact and grace to understand they should behave in accordance with the setting. A sports outing is not a political rally. I would not hire these people because they have no tact or grace to be among the public.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bythegates 8/11/2019 5:31:08 PM (No. 149293)
If they are not removed from the team for violating their no politics agreements, the right to represent the USA and any public funding should be rescinded from the entire committee and team.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
0658 8/11/2019 5:35:37 PM (No. 149294)
That's a Guy!!!
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I seethe with anger when I see pukes act like this.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ginadee 8/11/2019 5:46:24 PM (No. 149298)
Being an athlete doesn't take brains. Being an athlete takes skill, which is developed and improved upon by others such as trainers and coaches.
Now being an excellent athlete with the skills required to represent a country such as our United States takes the love of your sport to a higher place requiring all of the skills, love of country and pride being a representative of your country. These athletes that can't do that take me back to my first sentence. "Being an athlete doesn't take brains."
Upon their arrival back in the states, they should be ignored and treated as traitors. If only....
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/11/2019 5:48:57 PM (No. 149300)
They can party with the women's soccer team and chill it with AOC. Please don't disrespect our country while participating in sports representing our country. Do it on your own time off the field. You just make yourselves look like total fools, which you are.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Hairy Eyeball 8/11/2019 5:49:46 PM (No. 149301)
Athlete? He looks like he has the testosterone of a turnip.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
anniebc 8/11/2019 5:52:51 PM (No. 149303)
What are Pan Am Games?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 8/11/2019 6:18:06 PM (No. 149312)
Toss them off the team.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/11/2019 6:29:58 PM (No. 149320)
Take away their medals and their passports.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
hershey 8/11/2019 6:34:05 PM (No. 149323)
What is spiraling out of control is the mouths on our 'athletes'...just play and shaddup already!!
8 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 8/11/2019 7:13:34 PM (No. 149351)
A propagandized airhead leftist. Toss him off the team.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/11/2019 7:15:15 PM (No. 149353)
Get those punks the girl included ff the podium and take their medals back.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Janylou 8/11/2019 7:21:16 PM (No. 149359)
They are on the team to represent America. If they can’t, then throw them off the team!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Rinktum 8/11/2019 7:30:40 PM (No. 149362)
Clearly, it’s all about celebrity and cashing in. The left has made these kinds of exhibitions trendy because they are all about dissing the country whenever they get a chance and then getting something from it. Don’t watch them, don’t pay to go see them do whatever they do, and don’t allow your kids to buy into their lies. They are gearing up to spoil the Olympics in 2020. Count on it.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/11/2019 7:34:35 PM (No. 149363)
Pardon the second post, but, I wonder how the international Olympic committee plans to handle the trannys and the both ways athletes.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
fcwiv 8/11/2019 7:40:55 PM (No. 149369)
Enough of this foolishness!! You will represent all of us, or none of us. Pay your own way, and EARN our viewership!!
2 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 8/11/2019 7:58:37 PM (No. 149378)
What the hell is that thing with the blue lips?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 8/11/2019 8:23:43 PM (No. 149398)
Ban them
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 8/11/2019 8:26:40 PM (No. 149400)
OMG, that's a dude.
Looks like he is raising his hand to go to the bathroom.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
watashiyo 8/11/2019 9:02:11 PM (No. 149416)
American athelets are turning into a bunch of Star War Aliens. I can tolerate their looks, but the composition of what's inside their brain is certainly not American.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
The Remnants 8/11/2019 9:12:21 PM (No. 149426)
Oh, why don't you go visit Baltimore or Newark or Detroit or Chicago or some other Democrat-controlled city that needs your help and do the kinds of work that those volunteers did the other day in Baltimore? If groups could do that in many of these cities you'd be helping the people of those cities rather than trying to get some press for ranting against America. You'd be doing something positive, and there would be less violence in those cities because the people would know that someone cared about them.
"Let your lives square with your words.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
rochow 8/11/2019 10:20:30 PM (No. 149459)
When US Olympics sends you a donation request, just write across: you will get one when your athletes behave like Americans. I don't need to be lectured by some undereducated forgettable sports person what to think and how to think.
They will get the drift if they get enough comments back but no checks or donations!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
red1066 8/11/2019 10:25:47 PM (No. 149462)
I wonder how much taxpayer money they used to train and compete, and then to pay for their trip to this event.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Trigger2 8/12/2019 3:50:56 AM (No. 149558)
Since he hates the US so much, his citizenship should b e taken away from him and he should be deported to whatever communist country that floats his boat.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
kidsmom 8/12/2019 6:56:42 AM (No. 149621)
Hope they get censored and removed from the team. Stupid has consequences.
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The AfrAm who looks like a man in blue lipstick is woker than woke. He and the kneeling racist named Race should be tossed off the team, if there's any good left in the world.