When the International Olympic Committee changed its rules to prohibit athletes from raising their fists or taking a knee while on the medal podium, athletes risked being stripped of their Olympic medal for speaking out against injustice.
Gwen Berry, Olympic hammer thrower, who along with Race Imboden were punished by the U.S. Olympic committee for protesting racial injustice at the Pan Am-Games
Christian Taylor, two-time Olympic triple jump champion, and founder of the Athletics Association, a group working to give Olympic athletes a voice at the table with the IOC