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  1. 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.

    • Molly Hurford
  2. 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...

    • Madison Dapcevich
    • Who Is Chelsea Wolfe?
    • Wolfe called Herself A 'gamechanger'
    • Internet Wants Wolfe Disqualified

    The Florida native, 28, sparked massive outrage online when her comments from a year ago about burning the US flag were outed in the wake of her Olympic selection. Beaming with pride in the photos she shared with her 7,700 Instagram followers, Wolfe had written a lengthy caption expressing gratitude at the selection, on June 12. “I am positively a ...

    With regards to her Facebook post from March 2020, Wolfe clarified to Fox News recently: "One of the reasons why I work so hard to represent the United States in international competition is to show the world that this country has morals and values, that it’s not all of the bad things that we’re known for. I take a stand against fascism because I c...

    "Chelsea Wolfe needs to be removed from the team representing the United States of America in the Olympics. Anybody who hates America enough to want to burn the American flag on the podium don't deserve to be on the Olympic stage," tweeted one person. Another shared: "#ChelseaWolfe is disgusting. If you hate the #USA so much, leave. He is a mentall...

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  4. Jul 30, 2021 · David Lazar. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. Jan 30, 2024 · This meant that former Olympian and Team USA BMX rider Chelsea Wolfe could no longer compete, nor could American cyclist Austin Killips, who just two months earlier had become the first openly transgender woman to win an official UCI cycling event. “My world crumbled,” Wolfe told Bicycling magazine shortly after the ban was instituted.

  7. Nov 18, 2021 · Olympic BMX athlete Chelsea Wolfe and Athlete Ally's Anne Lieberman open up about the wave of bills banning trans youth athletes from sports.