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Aug 9, 2023 · Freestyle BMX Olympian Chelsea Wolfe talks candidly about the UCI’s ban on trans women athletes, mental health, and what we’re missing when it comes to protecting women’s sport.
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Jul 30, 2021 · Published July 30, 2021, 12:00 p.m. ET. Chelsea Wolfe is making history as the first transgender athlete to go to the Olympics. The American BMX rider will be a reserve for Team USA and...
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Jun 24, 2021 · A Facebook post allegedly from March 2020 and shared by Chelsea Wolfe, a freestyle BMX biker who is the first transgender woman to join the U.S. Olympic team, reportedly said that she hoped...
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Wolfe didn't just fall into BMX. She was born into it. Her family, including her mom, dad, older brother and younger sister, all rode BMX together. Wolfe got on a bike for the first time at just 6 years old. When she started competing, the family drove their RV to competitive series throughout Florida and camped in parking lots at the tracks. They ...
When Wolfe got to high school, she started to understand herself and how she saw herself in the future. As a college student at the University of Central Florida, Wolfe spent time looking inward and coming out to her friends and family members. That process wasn't always smooth. Wolfe became estranged from some members of her family, and her mom sa...
At the Tokyo 2020 Games, BMX freestyle cycling competitors will execute tricks on obstacles such as walls, box jumps and ramps, according to the Olympic committee. They are given one minute to perform acrobatic tricks and skills. Tricks are scored on difficulty, originality, execution, height and creativity. Wolfe is an alternate at this year's Oly...
Jun 21, 2021 · Earlier this month, Wolfe posted about what it meant to qualify as an alternate for the Olympics as a transgender athlete. "I searched for so long trying to find out if there had ever been a professional trans bmx rider to show me that who I am would be okay and unfortunately I found no one," Wolfe wrote on Instagram on June 12.
Jun 22, 2021 · A transgender woman who qualified as an alternate for Team USA ’s BMX freestyle event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games once said she wanted to compete so she could “burn a US flag on the podium.”. Chelsea Wolfe from Florida has been BMX racing from the age of six, and started competing in freestyle competitions in her home state in 2014.
Jul 24, 2021 · Key points: The International Olympic Committee will announce new rules governing trans participation after the Tokyo Games. IOC rules inform national sporting organisations, but there are exceptions. Chelsea Wolfe, a freestyle BMX athlete who made Team USA, is concerned by shifting rules, which can impact young athletes.
