Olympic Games: Polish ski jumper complains about hostility on social media | EUROtoday

The Polish ski jumper Pola Bełtowska reported appreciable hostility on social networks after her workforce’s early elimination. The 19-year-old Olympic debutant was the primary jumper on her workforce to attain the weakest worth in her group with 82 meters, Poland missed out on making it to the second spherical.

“I don’t read comments online, but I get such private messages that it’s just outrageous,” Bełtowska advised Polish media. “This is such hatred, I didn’t expect that people could have so much hatred against me.” She will likely be “finished from top to bottom.”

The US affiliation additionally just lately warned of an growing variety of hostilities. The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) advised the AP information company that the very best effort is being made to take away the assaults on social media and to ahead critical threats to legislation enforcement authorities. US President Donald Trump had beforehand described American ski freestyler Hunter Hess as a “real loser” on his Truth Social platform.

Donald Trump responded to the ski freestyler’s essential feedback concerning the US authorities’s authoritarian insurance policies: It evokes “mixed feelings” to characterize the nation in these instances, mentioned Hess. “Just because I wear the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s happening in the United States right now.”