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" A week after NASCAR&amp;#039;s official statement distancing itself from the Confederate flag, the Daytona International Speedway announced plans for a flag exchange at its NASCAR races this weekend. Bring in a flag\u2014any old flag, really, but you know which one they mean\u2014and they&amp;#039;ll give you an American flag in return. Daytona&amp;#039;s president Joie Chitwood said:  &amp;quot;For us, we&amp;#039;re celebrating the American Flag this weekend. It&amp;#039;s our nation&amp;#039;s birthday. We&amp;#039;re going to have a flag exchange opportunity. So fans who would like to fly the American Flag, we&amp;#039;ll trade with you on whatever flag you have. We want you to celebrate that flag this weekend. [...] The last thing you want is for anyone to come to a sporting event and really not enjoy that experience because of symbols that really represent things that we&amp;#039;re not proud of.  Fans will not be forbidden from wearing or flying the Confederate flag, but Daytona (and NASCAR) are looking at options for future events.   &amp;quot;At this point, with the late nature of where we are, we cannot ban anything, we cannot change our policy,&amp;quot; Chitwood said. &amp;quot;Needless to say, there is a lot of discussion of how we get there and what we can do in the future so we make sure that we celebrate all that is right in this country.&amp;quot;  No official word as to whether body artists will be on hand to repaint fans&amp;#039; chests. [H/T NBC Sports] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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