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Team USA Will Bring Its First Trans Athlete to Tokyo

‘READY TO SHRED’

Chelsea Wolfe will serve as an alternate on the BMX team.

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A transgender athlete will travel to the Olympics with Team USA for the first time ever in 2021. Chelsea Wolfe is an alternate on the BMX racing team, and will see competition if one of the two qualifying riders drops out. After finishing fifth at the World Championships last week, which earned her the spot, she wrote, “I’m so excited and honored to keep working so I’m ready to shred in Tokyo in case I’m needed.”

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