{"id":571397,"date":"2021-06-23T10:06:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571397"},"modified":"2021-06-23T10:06:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:06:59","slug":"miracle-on-ice-captain-reacts-to-olympic-athlete-who-threatened-to-burn-u-s-flag-at-podium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miracle-on-ice-captain-reacts-to-olympic-athlete-who-threatened-to-burn-u-s-flag-at-podium\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Miracle On Ice\u2019 Captain Reacts To Olympic Athlete Who Threatened To Burn U.S. Flag At Podium"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmiracle-on-ice-captain-reacts-to-olympic-athlete-who-threatened-to-burn-u-s-flag-at-podium%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571397&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mike-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Mike Eruzione, who led the U.S. hockey team in defeating the Soviet Union team in the 1980 Olympics, says he couldn\u2019t believe it when he heard that an Olympian planned to burn the American flag if they won a gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually couldn\u2019t believe it. I mean, first of all, burning the American flag anywhere is disgusting,\u201d Eruzione <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/olympian-chelsea-wolfe-burning-flag-miracle-ice-eruzione\">said<\/a> on Fox News. \u201cTo use your forum on the podium of the Olympic Games, I was like really, could someone actually think about doing that? \u2026 I just couldn\u2019t even imagine the mindset of someone thinking that made sense,\u201d Eruzione said, adding that he thought it was a \u201cprank.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The captain of the team that pulled off what\u2019s been dubbed the \u201cMiracle on Ice\u201d said it is an \u201chonor\u201d to take the top slot on the Olympic podium and hear the Star-Spangled Banner as the U.S. flag is raised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the ultimate honor, it\u2019s not a Super Bowl or a World Series or a Stanley Cup. This is the United States. You represent every part of this country,\u201d said Eruzione, who scored the game-winning goal against the USSR.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea Wolfe, who identifies as a transgender woman, has won a spot to compete as a BMX freestyle rider in the Tokyo Olympics. Last year, Wolfe said they planned to burn a U.S. flag at the podium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goal is to win the Olympics so I can burn a US flag on the podium. This is what they focus on during a pandemic. Hurting trans children,\u201d Wolfe wrote on Facebook on March 25, 2020. The post has since been deleted.<\/p>\n<p>Wolfe told Fox News that the post, which has since been deleted, does not mean they hate America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who thinks that I don\u2019t care about the United States is sorely mistaken,\u201d Wolfe said. \u201cOne 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\u2019s not all of the bad things that we\u2019re known for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI take a stand against fascism because I care about this country and I\u2019m not going to let it fall into the hands of fascists after so many people have fought and sacrificed to prevent fascism from taking hold abroad. As a citizen who wants to be proud of my home country, I\u2019m sure as hell not going to let it take hold here,\u201d Wolfe said.<\/p>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee (IOC) in April announced that it will enforce its rule banning athletes from demonstrating at this summer\u2019s Tokyo Olympics, noting that kneeling or raising a fist will bring swift punishment.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC\u2019s \u201cRule 50\u201d says that \u201cNo kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.\u201d But the committee reviewed the policy after professional American athletes protested their own national anthem.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Eruzione, who led the U.S. hockey team in defeating the Soviet Union team in the 1980 Olympics, says he couldn\u2019t believe it when he heard that an Olympian planned &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281066,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mike-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Miracle On Ice\u2019 Captain Reacts To Olympic Athlete Who Threatened To Burn U.S. Flag At Podium","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/mike-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Miracle On Ice\u2019 Captain Reacts To Olympic Athlete Who Threatened To Burn U.S. Flag At Podium","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}