Staff GB skier Gus Kenworthy says he has acquired demise threats after posting a graphic message about america’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement organisation – generally often called ICE.
Kenworthy shared the picture – by which ‘ICE’ was preceded by an expletive – on Instagram per week earlier than he was because of compete on the Winter Olympics in Italy.
The 34-year-old was born in Chelmsford however grew up in America and received silver within the ski slopestyle on the Sochi 2014 Video games, earlier than switching allegiance to Staff GB in 2019.
In a brand new publish on Instagram, Kenworthy stated there had been lots of “encouraging” assist however that he has additionally acquired demise threats.
“The opposite day I posted a photograph with my ideas on ICE and that picture has since gone all over the place – and I’ve gotten a tonne of messages and most of them actually have been supportive and inspiring,” Kenworthy stated in a video., exterior
“However lots of the messages have been terrible, folks telling me to kill myself, threatening me, wishing they will get to see me blow my knee or break my neck throughout my occasion, calling me slurs… it is insane.”
Kenworthy will function within the males’s snowboard halfpipe occasion, with qualifying starting on 19 February in Livigno, Italy.
Protests have taken place throughout the US over the previous few weeks after intensive care nurse Alex Pretti, 37, and fellow Minnesota resident Renee Good, 37, have been each killed by ICE brokers within the metropolis in January.
