Sha’Carri Richardson is speaking out for the first time.
The 21-year-old athlete, poised to be a strong competitor at the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, made a statement about her suspension from the U.S. Olympic team after reportedly failing a drug test due to testing positive for marijuana.
According to NBC, she failed the test for THC, found in marijuana, after her win at the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Oregon last month.
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It looks like LeBron James is done with the Olympics.
During a new interview with ESPN, USA Basketball managing director Jerry Colangelo thinks that the 36-year-old L.A. Lakers player won’t compete in the Olympics again.
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The US Olympic committee has overturned a big rule in the community for the 2021 Summer Olympic games.
For many years, it has been frowned upon for athletes to share their social justice views in any form in their sport. However, this year, athletes will be allowed to do just that.
In a new document that was released this week, the IOC outlined new actions that are permitted during the games.
They include kneeling during the National Anthem and raising a fist at the starting line or on the podium. Tommie Smith and John Carlos famously raised their fists after winning medals during the 1968 games held in Mexico City.
Athletes who are competing in the Olympic trials will be allowed to wear hats or face coverings with phrases including “Black Lives Matter,” “Trans Lives Matter,” “equality” and “respect.”
Also permitted is “orally advocating for equity/equal rights for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) individuals, or other historically underrepresented, marginalized or minoritized populations.”
No hate speech is allowed, and anything beyond social justice demonstrations and the athlete would receive a sanction.
The 2021 Summer Olympics, to be held in Tokyo, were postponed last year because of the pandemic and are now expected to take place starting on July 23.
However, outside the athletes and coaches, these are the only people allowed to attend.
The International Olympics Committee has made a big announcement regarding the upcoming 2021 Summer Olympics.
The IOC, the Japanese government, the Tokyo government, and the International Paralympic Committee announced on Saturday (March 20) that foreign spectators have been banned from the upcoming Olympics, which opens this July in Tokyo.
Officials said that the risk is too high to allow foreign ticket holders to attend the games amid the ongoing worldwide Coronavirus pandemic.
“In order to give clarity to ticket holders living overseas and to enable them to adjust their travel plans at this stage, the parties on the Japanese side have come to the conclusion that they will not be able to enter into Japan at the time of the Olympic and Paralympic Games,” the Tokyo organizing committee said in a statement via ESPN.
IOC president Thomas Bach called this a “difficult decision,” adding, “We have to take decisions that may need sacrifice from everybody.”
Organizers have already revealed that over 600,000 tickets have been sold to fans outside of Japan. They are all being promised a refund.
Originally, this summer’s Olympic games were supposed to take place last summer, but they were postponed because of the pandemic.
The 2021 Summer Olympics are now scheduled for July 23 to August 8, with the Paralympics running from August 24 to September 5.
Breakdancing is now officially an Olympic sport!
The International Olympic Committee added the form of dance as an official competition for the upcoming 2024 Paris Games. The sport will not be included in the 2021 games in Tokyo, which were originally supposed to take place in 2020 but were postponed due to COVID-19.
In addition, skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing were also added as official sports for the Paris games, ESPN reports. The surfers will actually compete in Tahiti and not in Paris, due to the lack of waves near the city.
Breakdancing will actually be referred to as “breaking” in competition.
If you’re wondering if the 2021 Olympics will go on despite the ongoing pandemic, here’s the latest we have on this information.
The 2020 Summer Olympic Games won’t be postponed again, IOC Vice President John Coates shared with press.
Despite the IOC President Yoshiro Mori for the Toyko Games saying that the game could be cancelled if the coronavirus pandemic is still a threat, Mr. Coates is saying the opposite.
“It will take place with or without COVID,” he shared during his interview. “The games will start on July 23 next year. The games were going to be, their theme, the Reconstruction Games after the devastation of the tsunami. Now very much these will be the games that conquered COVID, the light at the end of the tunnel.”
Originally scheduled to take place beginning in July, the 2020 Games were postponed by a year and are set to kick off in summer of 2021.
