Why Trump is Booing American Olympic Athletes
This isn't to bash Trump, just another article with a very misleading headline. But at least this writer does a nice job explaining how the Olympic games, while not intended to be political, the games were beginning with the 1896 Summer games.
As strange as it sounds, the political controversy with this version of the Summer games is an American female shot putter and a New Zealand weight lifter. Though questionable, the shot putter's actions didn't violate any rules. The controversy with the weight lifter is with the rules and based on how the International Olympic Committee defines an athletes' gender.
IMO Laurel Hubbard entered the games just to get five minutes of fame because they couldn't even lift the qualifying weight.