The Olympic spirit is supposed to transcend politics and unify athletes under a banner of sportsmanship. But Chelsea Wolfe, once hailed as Team USA’s first openly transgender Olympian, has managed to torch that image in record time.
Her recent social media posts — openly celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk — coupled with new allegations of obscene threats hurled at a female protester, have pushed USA Cycling to disown her entirely.
The timing could not be more inflammatory. Just days after Kirk was gunned down while fielding a question about transgender shooters, Wolfe posted an Instagram story declaring, “We did it!” alongside news of his murder. Another message mocked, “He didn’t have to do all that, but he did and now he’s dead,” punctuated with a smiling thumbs-up selfie. Additional reposts reveled in labeling Kirk a “fascist” and dismissing condolences for his grieving family. For Wolfe, the death of a husband and father was not tragedy but triumph.
“Go suck a sawed-off shotgun.”
“You’re a Nazi piece of shit.”
“We kill Nazis”That’s Connor Wolfe’s response to women holding “No males in female cycling” signs
Wolfe is notorious for threatening women, celebrating Kirk’s death & vowing to burn the US flag on the Olympic podium pic.twitter.com/84GqYLOwls
— WomenAreReal (@WomenAreReals) September 15, 2025
USA Cycling, clearly unwilling to be tethered to the fallout, acted quickly. “Chelsea Wolfe has not been a member of the USA Cycling National Team or a member of USA Cycling since 2023,” a spokesperson clarified, stressing that her “views… do not reflect those of USA Cycling.”
Wolfe’s BMX freestyle career had effectively ended last year when the international cycling body barred transgender athletes from women’s competition. But the organization’s statement underscored the urgency of distance: Wolfe’s rhetoric was toxic enough to tarnish the sport itself.
Compounding the damage, a viral video surfaced this weekend that allegedly shows Wolfe berating a woman who dared ask if men were competing in a women’s race in California.
“Go suck a sawn-off shotgun,” Wolfe sneered repeatedly, waving off the protester as a “sore loser” and proclaiming, “We kill Nazis” while smiling at the camera. The clip, viewed millions of times, left even sympathetic observers stunned at the casualness of the threat.
This is not Wolfe’s first brush with controversy. In 2020, she declared her dream was to win Olympic gold “so I can burn a US flag on the podium.” Even then, critics questioned how such sentiments squared with representing the United States. Today, those earlier words seem less like provocation and more like prophecy fulfilled: Wolfe has become a walking contradiction of the values the Olympics claim to champion.
