Next Friday the 2021 Summer Olympics will begin. They will begin without Sha’carri Richardson.
For those of you who have been living under a rock for the last few weeks, Richardson is arguably the fastest woman on the planet. She will not be at the Olympics because she used marijuana, tested positive for it in a post-qualifying drug test and her qualifying run was voided.
According to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES), for something to be added to the . prohibited list, it must meet two of the three inclusion criteria: It poses a health risk to athletes; It has the potential to enhance performance; It violates the spirit of sport.
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The countdown continues for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo.We are now 80 days away from the start of the opening ceremony. As we inch closer to the games, you may be hearing about Rule 50. The rule prohibits demonstrations, along with political, religious and racial propaganda at the Olympics. That includes peaceful demonstrations on the podium.However, the rule has been the subject of heated debate over the last year.Steeplechase Olympian Collen Quigley is used to clearing hurdles. However, this past year, the Florida State alumnus began focusing on a different hurdle and joined Team USA s Council on racial and social justice.“I got a position on the committee that s working on protests and demonstrations. And basically, what my committee has been focusing on is something called Rule 50,” Quigley said.According to the Olympic Charter, Rule 50 states no kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas