Olympic Medalists Sound Off On Leftist Proposals To Potentially Redesign the U.S. Flag Logo: ‘Old Glory Doesn’t Need Rebranding’

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Gary Hall Sr. and Gary Hall Jr. are U.S. Olympic swimming medalists who recently appeared on “Hannity” and responded to a report of potentially redesigning the U.S. Olympic Committee’s U.S. flag logo, according to Fox News. Hall Jr. said that “Old Glory doesn’t need rebranding.”

In 1968, Hall St. won Silver medals in Mexico City as well as in 1972 in Munich and 1976 in Montreal. Hall Jr. won Gold in the 1996 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens games. “What irritates me out of this whole thing is that there is some marketing or branding firm out there that has already been paid a lot of money for these drafts even and these resources, couldn’t they be better applied by supporting our athletes or giving it to an anti-doping agency to catch cheaters?” Hall Jr. added. “The greatest honor of my life was in Montreal in 1976 when I was selected to carry the American flag for the U.S. Olympic team leading into Montreal Stadium,” Hall Sr. said. “And the American flag is iconic. It doesn’t just represent the greatest country in the world. It represents and symbolizes millions of Americans who have worked hard, who have sacrificed, some of them, with their own lives.”

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The Halls also mentioned another family hero, Hall Jr.’s cousin – a Navy SEAL who was killed in action in Iraq in 2016… “No one has the right to change that other than U.S. Congress, and to me, it’s disrespectful to even consider changing the American flag,” Hall Sr. continued.

In response to host Sean Hannity’s coverage of the story on Monday, USOC spokeswoman Kate Hartman said the imagery featured on “Hannity” “was one of many concepts being brainstormed as part of a branding logo update for the USOPC.”

“We want to be clear that we love our country and respect the American flag. We do not have any intention, not to mention the authority, to change our country’s flag that flies above the podium when a member of Team USA achieves Olympic or Paralympic greatness,” Hartman concluded.

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