Trump joke ‘overshadows’ US women’s Olympic successImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Hilary Knight has won two gold medals and three silvers at the Winter OlympicsByBen CollinsBBC Sport journalistPublished32 minutes agoA “distasteful joke” by US President Donald Trump has overshadowed the achievement of female athletes at the Winter Olympics, says USA women’s ice hockey captain Hilary Knight.USA won both men’s and women’s ice hockey gold for the first time at the Milan-Cortina Games this month.The men’s team received a congratulatory call from Trump, who invited them to his State of the Union address and mentioned he would have to ask their female counterparts as well or he “probably would be impeached”.
The women’s team later declined an invitation from Trump to attend Tuesday’s speech in Washington DC.
“It was sort of a distasteful joke, and unfortunately that is overshadowing a lot of the success, the success of just women at the Olympics carrying for Team USA and having amazing gold medal feats,” five-time Olympic medallist Knight told ESPN.
