‘Sport is political'
“As an athlete, if I want to protest, I don’t really care what the rules are. I really care about the issue,” said Kenneth Shropshire, a professor and chief executive of the Global Sport Institute at Arizona State University who was also on the Team USA council that offered revisions for Rule 50.
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