U.S. Ski & Snowboard is investigating allegations that longtime Olympic coach Peter Foley took footage of bare feminine athletes and that Olympic snowboard racer Hagen Kearney used racist language to impress a teammate.
Former snowboardcross rider Callan Chythlook-Sifsof, a member of the 2010 Olympic workforce, wrote in an Instagram submit that along with taking the pictures, Foley had made inappropriate feedback, and that Kearney repeatedly used the N-word to "deliberately get underneath my pores and skin."
Chythlook-Sifsof is from Alaska and describes herself as Yupik and Inupiaq.
Each Foley and Kearney had been in China this week for the Beijing Video games.
U.S. Ski & Snowboard launched a press release that stated it "takes all allegations critically. Peter Foley stays as U.S. Snowboardcross workforce head coach whereas all current allegations are being investigated."
Foley stated he was stunned by the allegations in a textual content to The Related Press.
"I vehemently deny the allegations," he continued. "I am doing my finest to focus on supporting the athletes on the Olympics."
Kearney, who completed seventeenth in Thursday's males's snowboardcross contest, posted on Instagram that he confronted expulsion from the workforce after the episode with Chythlook-Sifsof, and apologized shortly after.
"I didn't have the identical head on my shoulders again then as I do now and Callan was an enormous a part of me altering and rising as a human," Kearney wrote on Instagram.
Lindsey Jacobellis, who received her second gold medal of the Beijing Video games by teaming with Nick Baumgartner in Saturday's combined snowboardcross occasion, stated she by no means had a problem with Foley.
"I can converse very extremely of his character and he is at all times been supporting me by way of all the things that I've gone by way of," Jacobellis stated.
In her Instagram submit, Chythlook-Sifsof described occasions that occurred in 2014.
"I can't watch one other Olympic Video games with out saying this publicly," she wrote.
The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee stated in a press release: "We take all allegations of sexual misconduct critically and comply with protocols to make sure it's reported and managed correctly."
Circumstances are investigated by the U.S. Middle for SafeSport, which opened in 2017 to deal with harassment and different abuse allegations inside U.S. sports activities.