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Stopping athletes protesting at Tokyo 2020 will ‘be impossible,’ says Edwin Moses

Some of the Olympic Games' most iconic moments have come not in the sporting feats themselves, but in the limelight those achievements have earned athletes.

From John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s famous black power salute in 1968 to Peter O’Connor scaling a flagpole to wave the Irish flag in 1906, political statements have been woven into the fabric of the modern Games.
  • Matia Grez
  • CNN
However, that could be about to change after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently announced new guidelines that reiterated and clarified its ban on …

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