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Protesters in Cuba and Hong Kong appear to have a greater affection for the American flag than some of the nation’s Olympic athletes, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said Monday.

Atlantic writer and former ESPN host Jemele Hill insisted on Sunday that Olympic rules tend to “disproportionately” hurt “athletes of color.”

Seth Rogen — who spent over a decade starring in and propping up Hollywood’s stoner movie genre with Knocked Up (2007), Pineapple Express (2008),  Neighbors (2014 and it’s 2017 sequel), and most recently Long Shot (2019) — accused the U.S. Olympic Committee of racism for suspending runner Sha’Carri Richardson after she tested positive for marijuana.

Hollywood actor and former WWE professional wrestler Dave Bautista criticized Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) after he went after U.S. Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry for turning away from the American flag during the national anthem, calling him a “huge fucking twat.”

Joy Behar told her co-hosts Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that hammer thrower Gwen Berry was just doing her patriotic duty when she protested the flag and the national anthem at the U.S. Olympics trials over the weekend.

Frank Gaffney likened the 2022 Winter Olympics scheduled to be held in Beijing, China, to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany,

A majority of Americans are against women having to compete against biological men in athletics, a Rasmussen Reports survey released Friday found.

According to reports, transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard kept a minority woman from making her Olympic debut.

Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre said it is not fair for a male weightlifter to compete against women at the summer Olympics.

A transgender BMX freestyle rider and U.S. Olympic team alternate once allegedly made remarks about exploding the head of a President with dynamite, according to a report. 

Former British Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies took to social media Monday to criticize the International Olympic Committee for allowing a biological male to compete against women in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics.

A transgender BMX freestyle rider and U.S. Olympic team alternate once said that his goal was to win the Olympics so he could burn the American flag on the podium.

Reactions are piling up after it was reported that Laurel Hubbard, a male who identifies as a woman, will compete as a female in Tokyo.

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy on Monday formally laid out a plan to hold the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) accountable for the coronavirus pandemic, a “roadmap” that includes eight steps Congress can take to do so.

Shelby Houlihan, a U.S. track and field athlete and Olympic hopeful, blames a burrito for a positive steroid test that led to her receiving a four-year ban.

The Human Rights Campaign is suing Florida Gov. DeSantis for signing into law legislation to protect female athletes from trans competition.

An Australian female swimmer has ended her Olympic pursuits to teach a lesson to the “misogynistic perverts she claims are “exploiting” her.

Transgender activists said it is fair for transgender “women” to compete against biological women and claims otherwise are “overblown.”

Panelists and lawmakers at a House hearing urged a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China because of human rights abuses.

The World Uyghur Congress (WUC), an international organization headquartered in Germany, on Tuesday released the 2020 edition of its annual Human Rights Report. The WUC described its report as “a detailed review of China’s egregious crimes against the Uyghurs and other Turkic people.”

A photo depicting Olympic snowboarder Torah Bright standing on her head while breastfeeding has whipped up a firestorm of criticism.

At least nine trans individuals — seven biological men and two biological women — are hoping to compete at the Olympics in July in Tokyo.

TOKYO (AP) — An online petition with more than 350,000 signatures calling for the Tokyo Games to be canceled was submitted Friday to local organizers, the International Olympic Committee and others.

A union of Japanese hospital doctors on Wednesday urged Tokyo to cancel its upcoming Summer Olympic Games, slated to begin on July 23, warning it would be “impossible” to stage the event safely amid the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

(AFP) — Australian basketball’s longest-running feud flared again Wednesday when former NBA star Andrew Bogut took aim at women’s Olympic stalwart Liz Cambage over her accusations team photos had been “whitewashed”.

Caitlyn Jenner, a transgender woman and a California gubernatorial candidate, said she wants to give illegal aliens a pathway to citizenship.

Joy Behar told her co-hosts on Thursday’s broadcast of ABC’s “The View” that she believed Black Lives Matter was “not a political statement” because it was “just a statement of fact.”

A man who goes by the name Laurel Hubbard could be the first transgender woman to compete in the Olympics this summer in Japan.

Two new bills in Ohio would require students to participate in sports corresponding with their birth gender.

The NCAA is threatening to boycott states attempting to protect female athletes from transgender competition, including Oklahoma.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press”  that talk of the United States boycotting the 2022 Beijing Olympics was “premature.”

The Brazilian Olympic Committee ordered all members of its Olympic delegation to undergo 30 hours of “anti-racism” training before departing for the Tokyo Games this summer.

Chinese officials and state media on Wednesday warned the Biden administration not to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics over human-rights complaints, claiming that such a boycott would “damage the spirit of the Olympic Charter” and inflict severe economic and political damage on the weakened United States.

Mike Pompeo urged Americans to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics to be held in Beijing, China, calling them the “Genocide Olympics.

China’s government warned against the idea, threatening a “robust Chinese response” if the United States decided to boycott the Olympics.

According to the State Department, the United States is considering joining the boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic games as the Biden Administration is working to organize an international pushback on China.