Olympic ski star amps up ICE criticism after posting graphic photo

Gus Kenworthy, a British American Olympic skier who is representing Great Britain successful the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, doubled down connected his disapproval of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) connected Monday.

Kenworthy posted a graphic photograph that work "F--- ICE" successful urine portion helium stood implicit the phrase. He said successful the video posted to his Instagram that helium received a batch of "awful" messages since helium shared the photo.

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Gus Kenworthy of Britain reacts aft his tally successful Feb. 19, 2022. (REUTERS/Lisi Niesner)

He maintained that it was important to "stand up for what we judge successful and basal up for justice."

"I besides deliberation that there's a batch of nuance to it, and I consciousness similar sometimes radical hide that," helium said. "So, I conscionable privation to punctual everyone that, like, you tin emotion the U.S. and beryllium arrogant to beryllium an American – I americium – and inactive deliberation it tin beryllium amended and inactive deliberation that the state tin improve.

"And conscionable due to the fact that you emotion the U.S. doesn't mean you basal with this medication and basal down their policies and their authorities and enactment the things that they support. Because I don't and I bash not enactment ICE. And I deliberation it's perfectly evil and atrocious and terrifying. There person been U.S. citizens that person been murdered successful the street, executed successful the street, and the officers are fundamentally acting with impunity due to the fact that their identities are covered."

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, on with different national instrumentality enforcement agencies, be a pre-enforcement gathering successful Chicago, Illinois, US, connected Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (Getty Images)

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Kenworthy claimed that ICE agents were "racially profiling people, rounding up Black and Brown folks and kidnapping them, putting them successful unmarked vehicles with nary apprehension warrant, nary probable cause."

"They're being held without immoderate benignant of owed process. It's crazy. It's scary. And radical are being sent to countries that they're not adjacent from. And U.S. citizens are being caught successful this.

"And I deliberation overwhelmingly the bulk of the radical being targeted are bully people, hardworking radical that are nonviolent and person nary transgression past and conscionable came to the U.S. seeking a amended life. And that is virtually the instauration communicative of the U.S. We are a state of immigrants, and that's the American dream. And I deliberation radical hide that sometimes."

Gus Kenworthy of Great Britain looks connected during grooming anterior to competing successful the Men's Freeski Halfpipe Final during the Toyota US Grand Prix 2025 astatine Copper Mountain connected Dec. 20, 2025 successful Copper Mountain, Colorado.  (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

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Kenworthy, 34, is acceptable to vie successful the men’s freeski halfpipe event.

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