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Even sports, which is supposed to be based entirely on skill, is influenced by politics.  A Greek Olympic athlete was excluded from competing for her team because of a political joke she made on Twitter, despite how she had trained for years and qualified to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics.  As another example, how much the outspoken Christian Tim Tebow plays in games for the New York Jets has become a massive political issue in the New York area.  In Sunday's game between the Jets and Steelers, Tim Tebow was abruptly pulled out of the game despite doing better than the other quarterback.  The Jets then lost 27-10 without Tebow being allowed to throw a single pass, to a team that Tebow had defeated 8 months earlier.  The Jets coach was surprised at a "press conference" (an invitation to the media to ask questions and obtain answers) when the media, which has been generally hostile to Tebow because of his political views, demanded that the coach explain why he pulled Tebow out of the game so quickly.  This illustrated how fickle the media can be - don't expect the media to be friendly.

Even sports, which is supposed to be based entirely on skill, is influenced by politics.  A Greek Olympic athlete was excluded from competing for her team because of a political joke she made on Twitter, despite how she had trained for years and qualified to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympics.  As another example, how much the outspoken Christian Tim Tebow plays in games for the New York Jets has become a massive political issue in the New York area.  In Sunday's game between the Jets and Steelers, Tim Tebow was abruptly pulled out of the game despite doing better than the other quarterback.  The Jets then lost 27-10 without Tebow being allowed to throw a single pass, to a team that Tebow had defeated 8 months earlier.  The Jets coach was surprised at a "press conference" (an invitation to the media to ask questions and obtain answers) when the media, which has been generally hostile to Tebow because of his political views, demanded that the coach explain why he pulled Tebow out of the game so quickly.  This illustrated how fickle the media can be - don't expect the media to be friendly.

<This should also mention the boycotts of the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics, as well as movements to have the US boycott the Beijing Games>

 

Participation by nations in the Olympics is also subject to politics.  In 1980, President Jimmy Carter insisted that the United States boycott and not participate in the Summer Olympics in protest over the invasion of the Soviet Union by Afghanistan.  Predictably, the Soviet Union then retaliated by boycotting the 1984 Summer Olympics that were held in Los Angeles.

== Constitutional Convention ==

== Constitutional Convention ==