NZOC Athletes Commission in favour of scrapping Rule 50 Friday, 19 February 2021
The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) Athletes Commission has called for Rule 50 to be removed, with a framework established to permit free speech within Olympic venues instead.
Discussions over Rule 50 have been heightened over the past year, prompted by the publication of Rule 50 guidelines last January.
The debate was fueled further by athletes demonstrations in 2020 as part of the Black Lives Matter movement s rise to increasing prominence.
Rule 50 states that no kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas .