USA CyCling responds after the transgender Olympic alternative celebrates the murder of Charlie Kirk
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USA Cycling has provided a statement to News Digital by directing publications on the social networks of the transgender athlete Chelsea Wolfe, an alternative in BMX for the US. UU. In the Tokyo Olympic Games, celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk this week.
“The opinions of the current and previous national team athletes are their own and do not reflect those of the USA cycling. Chelsea Wolfe has not been a member of the National Cycling Team of the USA. UU. Or member of the Cycling of the United States from 2023,” reads the statement.
Wolfe’s social networks statements, made through Instagram Story, included a remodeling of news from Kirk’s murder with an animated legend that said “We did it!” And a selfie with a legend that suggested that Kirk was a “Nazi.”
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Chelsea Wolfe, of the US team, competes in the women’s final during the Freestyle BMX World Cup on December 11, 2022 in Gold Coast, Australia. (Matt Roberts/Getty images)
“Being Nazi is completely optional for a certain. He didn’t have to do all that, but he did it and now he is dead. Do not live your life in a way that the world is better after your death,” Wolfe wrote.
Since then, Wolfe has been reaction to social networks. The legend of female and known liberal tennis Martina Navratilova and the conservative influence Riley Gaines have been among those who publicly criticized Wolfe.
Wolfe seemed to recognize the reaction in a publication on Thursday night, sharing a meme with the title that said: “Your boos mean nothing. I have seen what makes you encourage.”
Wolf He said previously In a March 2020 Facebook post, which the athlete expected to “burn the American flag” at Tokyo Olympic Games.
“My goal is to win the Olympic Games to burn an American flag on the podium. This is what they focus during a pandemic. Wounded to trans children,” Wolfe wrote on Facebook on March 25, 2020.
What is a bolt action rifle? What we know about the gun used to kill Charlie Kirk
The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) used a gender eligibility policy that allowed biological men to compete in the women’s category at the time of the Wolfe state as an Olympic alternative in 2021.
The USOPC changed its athlete security policy in July to suggest that it will comply with the executive order to “keep men out of women’s sports” by President Donald Trump.
USA CyCling published an updated policy in early September, restricting competitors in the women’s category, which says: “Women means a person who belongs, in conception, to the sex that produces the great reproductive cell.”
The officials responsible for enforcing the law worked frantically after Kirk’s death to locate and arrest the suspect, who announced on Friday that Tyler Robinson, a 22 -year -old Utah man, Utah’s governor, Spencer Cox, confirmed Friday.
The rifle that believe that federal researchers were used in the shooting contained inscribed ammunition with anti -fascist messages, shedding light on the reason for the suspect. One wore a housing and three unused housings contained the writings, Cox said.
FBI director Kash Patel He presented the investigation schedule on Friday, saying that he took 33 hours to the FBI and Utah to the law to arrest. Patel said the authorities made “historical progress” in such a short time.
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Cox on Friday described the shooting as a “political murder.”
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Jackson Thompson is a News Digital Sports writer. He previously worked for ESPN e Business Insider. Jackson has covered the finals of the Super Bowl and the NBA, and has interviewed the iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.