A transgender woman who once vowed to compete in the Olympics so she could “burn a US flag on the podium” has qualified as an …
A transgender woman who once vowed to compete in the Olympics so she could “burn a US flag on the podium” has qualified as an alternate for Team USA’s BMX freestyle event at the upcoming games in Tokyo, it was revealed Monday. Chelsea Wolfe, a 28-year-old Florida native, was beaming with pride in a photo shared with her 7,700 Instagram followers on June 12 announcing she was named as an alternate on the team. “I am positively a different person than when I set off on this journey and I’m so grateful for every experience along the way and I’m so excited and honored to keep working so I’m ready to shred in Tokyo in case I’m needed,” Wolfe wrote alongside a photo of herself smiling through a helmet. Wolfe, who started BMX racing at just 6 years old, will get the go-ahead to compete if her qualifying teammates, Hannah Roberts and Perris Benegas, can’t give it a go. She made her intentions clear last year in a since-deleted Facebook post about why she wanted to qualify, Fox News reported Monday. “My goal is to win the Olympics so I can burn a US flag on the podium,” Wolfe reportedly wrote on March 25, 2020 alongside an online article about how trans girls should be treated as biological males in school sports.
