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Ed.
note:
Welcome
to
our
daily
feature, Quote
of
the
Day.
My
advice
to
them
would
be
to
try
to
bring
the
country
together,
and
when
you’re
representing
the
country,
you’re
representing
Democrats
and
Republicans.
You’re
there
to
play
a
sport,
and
you’re
there
to
represent
your
country
and
hopefully
win
a
medal.
You’re
not
there
to
pop
off
about
politics.
When
Olympic
athletes
enter
the
political
area,
they
should
expect
some
pushback.
But
most
Olympic
athletes,
whatever
their
politics,
are
doing
a
great
job,
and
certainly
enjoy
the
support
of
the
entire
country,
and
I
think
recognize
that
the
way
to
bring
the
country
together
is
not
to
show
up
in
a
foreign
country
and
attack
the
president
of
the
United
States,
but
to
play
your
sport
and
represent
the
country
well.
— Vice
President
JD
Vance,
in
comments
noted
by
USA
Today,
concerning
Olympic
athletes
who
are
speaking
out
about
U.S.
politics
while
at
the
Olympics
in
Italy.
Vance
was
defending
President
Donald
Trump’s
criticism
of
freestyle
halfpipe
skier
Hunter
Hess,
who
said
he
had
“mixed
emotions”
about
representing
the
U.S.
“right
now,”
and
that
“[w]earing
the
flag
doesn’t
mean
I
represent
everything
that’s
going
on
in
the
U.S.”
Trump
went
on
to
call
Hess
a
“a
real
Loser,” which
prompted
Hess
to
respond,
“I
love
my
country…
but
there
are
always
things
that
could
be
better.
One
of
the
many
things
that
makes
this
country
so
amazing
is
that
we
have
the
right
and
the
freedom
to
point
that
out.”
Relatedly,
Rich
Ruohonen,
a
Minnesota
lawyer
on
the
curling
team,
recently
went
on
to
refer
to
the
shocking
killings
of
U.S.
citizens
by
ICE
agents
as
“wrong”
during
a
press
briefing.
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Zaretsky is
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managing
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