The author of this article has to be a democrat.....The part highlited in yellow,..These "athletes" don't have to LIKE Trump BUT,,,The should not go on GLOBAL TV and condem Trump and Pence in front of the whole world. .Remember the George Bush era, the country group "Dixie Chicks" career was ruined from remarks they made on stage in UK about Pres. Bush, not by fans but by their peers......And to the 2nd part highlited in red, the democrat BLOCKADE won't allow the Trump administration to move on.....The Dems never did nor will accept the results of thee election ! ! !..

Opinion: New Winter Olympic sport: American 'fans' hating on American athletes who speak their mind .........USA TODAY SPORTS ChristineBrennan

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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea – Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that Americans are now rooting for their fellow Americans to fail at the Olympic Games.
First it was Adam Rippon, then Lindsey Vonn, then Gus Kenworthy. All three dared to speak out critically against the leaders of our country, something that is about as American as apple pie, and very much in keeping with the First Amendment.
But exercising that right comes at a cost these days for America’s athletes. A sizable slice of the American public has decided that their allegiance to President Trump and Vice President Pence supercedes their red, white and blue devotion to their countrymen and women competing abroad in the largest regularly scheduled peacetime gathering of the world.
One would think that because criticism of Trump is so widespread across the country, his fans would ignore it by now. They didn’t lose the election; they won it. Declare victory, move on and wave the flag when Rippon takes the ice or Vonn and Kenworthy take to the slopes.
But no. These anti-American Americans become so rattled by the honest exchange of opinions that their anger gets the best of them. Then they end up treating a once-in-a-generation U.S. sports icon like Vonn as if she were a mortal enemy from the old CCCP. 

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