Don’t anticipate to see U.S. Winter Olympic champion Amber Glenn on the White Home anytime quickly.
The determine skater — who received gold within the group occasion on the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics — mentioned she received’t have a good time with the present president, Donald Trump, echoing the stance of the champion U.S. ladies’s ice hockey group, which declined an invite after controversy erupted over Trump’s dig at them.
“I’m electing to not both, so I don’t blame them in any respect,” Glenn instructed Us Weekly on the GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday.
“It’s our proper to have the ability to select what we do and don’t endorse, and I believe it’s a resolution that every particular person has the best to make,” she added.
Glenn, who in Italy grew to become the primary overtly queer lady to signify the U.S. in Olympic determine skating, throughout a press convention criticized Trump’s therapy of the LGBTQ+ group, saying it had been “a tough time.”
The athlete, who identifies as pansexual and bisexual, later mentioned she had obtained a “scary quantity of hate/threats” following the remarks.
She wrote on-line: “After I selected to make the most of one of many wonderful issues about the USA of America (Freedom of speech) to convey how I really feel as an athlete competing for Workforce USA in a troubling time for a lot of People I’m now receiving a scary quantity of hate/threats for merely utilizing my voice WHEN ASKED about how I really feel.”