But unfortunately not; back in April, the IOC announced that they were banning all forms of protest at the Olympics after 67% of competitors polled supported a ban. Raven was in breach of Rule 50 by making the X sign with her arms, and thus, investigations started on 2 August.

Nevertheless, according to the New York Times, Saunders was the first of a group of American athletes who had planned to do the same protest.

These athletes are following in the iconic footsteps of Tommie Smith and John Carlos who made their Black Power salutes at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City when collecting their medals – arguably the most powerful moment in Olympic history.

Yet, moments like that may not happen again (at least legally) because of the ban.

That means that athletes are forbidden from protesting the fact that it’s dangerous to be Black and American right now (the British Medical Journal claims that fatal police shootings of unarmed Black people in the US are more than three times as high as whites). It means that no British athlete could protest the fact that one in five LGBT people have experienced a hate crime in the last 12 months. Female athletes in other countries are not allowed to protest violence against women at the Olympics, one of the most visible and highly recognised platforms in the world.

Tokyo 2020: the problematic decision behind Saunders’ near-Olympic ban