SportsTaking a knee, raising a fist to be punished at Tokyo Games-IOC
Karolos Grohmann
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The Olympic rings are pictured in front of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Lausanne, Switzerland, February 24, 2021. REUTERS/Denis?Balibouse
Taking a knee during the Tokyo Olympics or lifting a fist in support of racial equality will be punished as the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday maintained its ban on athletes protests inside stadiums, at ceremonies and on podiums.
The IOC s Rule 50 forbids any kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda in venues and any other Olympic area and the Games body concluded the rule should be maintained following an athlete consultation.
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Press Release14 Apr 2021
Athletics committed to addressing barriers to growing the sport as more than 10,000 join Global Conversation
The Global Conversation
Better quality and more facilities, greater coverage of athletics in the media and on television and more athletics in schools are emerging as key drivers of growing athletics across the world. That’s according to early findings in
the Global Conversation, the survey currently being conducted by World Athletics that will shape the future direction of the sport for the next decade.
The survey, which went live at the end of March and will run until the end of April, has so far had more than 10,000 responses from people in 141 countries spread across all six continental areas.
World Athletics Women s Week
To coincide with International Women’s Day on 8 March 2021, World Athletics is delighted to announce the launch of #WeGrowAthletics, a campaign designed to build on the strides the sport has taken towards greater gender equality.
As part of the launch, World Athletics is making a number of pledges to commit to further advance the role of girls and women in athletics in three core areas of the sport – empowering women in leadership positions, breaking with traditions and shining a spotlight on women’s stories across its platforms.
This pledge has been the result of an internal review across World Athletics’ departments and work with key stakeholders and partners to identify areas in which more progress can be made.
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe has attempted to rally the
Japanese public behind the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic
Games amid waning support for the event in the host country.