{"id":4044,"date":"2024-08-13T19:40:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T19:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=4044"},"modified":"2024-08-13T19:40:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T19:40:47","slug":"colin-kaepernick-makes-shocking-announcement-for-the-2028-summer-olympics-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=4044","title":{"rendered":"Colin Kaepernick Makes Shocking Announcement For The 2028 Summer Olympics In Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many viewers may have seen\u00a0Colin Kaepernick<\/a>\u00a0at the 2024 Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n

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He wasn\u2019t competing, but he was shaking hands and embracing players like\u00a0Stephen Curry<\/a>\u00a0after winning their gold medal over France.<\/p>\n

A feeling of patriotism must have come over him because now Colin Kaepernick wants to represent the country in the Olympics.<\/p>\n

During the Summer Games in Paris, the former\u00a0NFL<\/a>\u00a0quarterback, who last played in the league in 2016, stated that he would love to play flag football in Los Angeles in 2028 for Team USA.<\/p>\n

He also stated he would try Javelin as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I could medal in any sport, it would be flag football in 2028 or the Javelin,\u201d Kaepernick told\u00a0Overtime\u00a0<\/a>at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris earlier this month.<\/p>\n

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The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback hasn\u2019t played a single game of football since the end of the 2016 season after he immersed himself into controversy by refusing to stand for the playing of the national anthem in protest of what he deemed are wrongdoings against African Americans and minorities in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,\u201d Kaepernick said in 2016. \u201cTo me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then-49ers head coach Chip Kelly told reporters at the time that Kaepernick\u2019s decision not to stand during the national anthem was \u201chis right as a citizen\u201d and said, \u201cIt\u2019s not my right to tell him not to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colin Kaepernick was 28-years-old then. No one knew at the time that he would be playing in his final season in the league.<\/p>\n

Colin Kaepernick Has Long Been Blackballed From The NFL<\/h2>\n

Even after NFL commissioner\u00a0Roger Goodell<\/a>\u00a0publicly apologized to Colin Kaepernick, he has not been given a second chance to play in the league.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Colin Kaepernick kneeled during the playing of the USA\u2019s national anthem prior to an NFL game in a protest against police, and his career would end soon afterward.<\/p>\n

No team has come close to trying to sign him.<\/p>\n

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Many viewers may have seen\u00a0Colin Kaepernick\u00a0at the 2024 Paris Olympics. He wasn\u2019t competing, but he was shaking hands and embracing players like\u00a0Stephen Curry\u00a0after winning their gold medal over France. A … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4046,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions\/4046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}