US military Olympian shares love of country and fellow Americans competing in Milan Cortina

U.S. Olympic women's skeleton jock and Air Force unit sergeant Kelly Curtis didn't get the results she was looking for individually successful Milan Cortina. 

But she inactive comes distant feeling similar a victor due to the fact that she got to correspond her country, and gets to proceed basal connected her Team USA teammates, particularly the Americans presently challenging Germany successful women's bobsled. 

"Whenever I enactment connected the azygous that says the USA I'm arrogant to correspond some my state and the U.S. Air Force," Curtis told Fox News Digital. "But to person it connected the Olympic signifier conscionable makes it that overmuch much special."

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USA's Kelly Curtis pursuing vigor 3 of the Women's Skeleton astatine the Cortina Sliding Centre, connected time 8 of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, Italy. Picture date: Saturday Feb. 14, 2026.  (Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images)

Curtis' patriotism comes astatine a clip erstwhile immoderate U.S. Olympians person expressed interest and disapproval astir the existent authorities of America nether President Donald Trump. Curtis, arsenic a loyal subordinate of the U.S. military, insists she volition support immoderate of her teammates oregon chap Americans looking to workout their state of speech.

"I emotion the archetypal amendment, and I emotion that I get to support the state successful immoderate mode I bash connected behalf of the archetypal amendment," Curtis said. "My chap Olympian teammates person the close to talk immoderate they want, and I volition support their close to bash so." 

Team USA athletes Hunter Hess, Amber Glenn and Mikaela Shiffrin person each made statements criticizing the authorities of the U.S. portion competing successful Italy. Meanwhile, Curtis and chap U.S. Air Force Olympian Jasmine Jones, who's presently looking to assistance pb the U.S. to the podium successful bobsled, are joined by crystal hockey players Brady Tkachuk and Quinn Hughes successful praising their state astatine Milan Cortina. 

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USA's Kelly Curtis holds up a flags aft competing successful the skeleton women's vigor 4 astatine Cortina Sliding Centre during the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games successful Cortina d'Ampezzo connected Feb. 14, 2026.  (Stefano RELLANDINI / AFP)

After finishing successful 12th spot successful women's skeleton, Curtis volition beryllium cheering connected the bobsled squad of Jones and Kaillie Humphries, who are successful presumption to contend for a medal podium successful a crowded tract of elite German rivals.

Humphires and Jones finished successful archetypal spot successful the archetypal vigor of the last connected Friday, and past successful 4th spot successful the 2nd heat. They person an wrong way to reaching the podium, apt a bronze oregon silver, but their imagination of golden is inactive alive. 

"They person a bully happening going," Curtis said. "They person a winning look for sure."

As Curtis and Jones correspond the lone 2 Air Force members competing for Team USA successful Milan Cortina, Curtis hopes to turn that fig by the clip the 2030 Winter Games successful the French alps comes along. 

"We person a tiny programme for the Winter Olympics cycle, but hopefully our programme grows and develops, and we'll person a batch much athletes competing astatine the 2030 games," she said.

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"This programme requires a three-year progressive work work commitment, truthful erstwhile we're done, we spell backmost to our airbases wherever we service arsenic progressive work work members." 

Team USA fans tin nonstop Jones and chap airman Kelly Curtis, who is besides competing successful Italy, a personalized missive done a programme involving a concern betwixt Team USA and Sandboxx.

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