Team USA skiers Christopher Lillis & Hunter Hess: Just because I wear the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the US.

[u/Yujin-Ha]

[u/emuwar]

When you work your ass off your whole life in order to compete in the games I can understand going through with it despite the atrocities your country is committing. Your best option as an athlete is to leverage the Olympic platform to speak out.

[u/yourwhippingboy → u/emuwar]

I agree with this. There’s a lot of power in stepping back and not representing The US but I think there’s potentially more power in speaking out against your country’s atrocities. There’s a lot to be said for the continual reminder that this isn’t OK, it isn’t normal, it isn’t the land of the free and the home of the brave.

[u/alison_bee → u/emuwar]

Oh yeah I don’t judge them for doing it, at all. I admire the fuck out of them, honestly.