Callan Chythlook-Sifsof
Callan Chythlook-Sifsof (born February 14, 1989) is an American snowboarder who has competed in snowboard cross since 2005. In 2006, she was invited to her first Winter X Games compe*ion and won a silver medal in 2011. She won the U.S. National Championships in Tamarack, Idaho in 2007. In 2008 she won the Jeep King of the Mountain World snowboard series in Sun Valley. Her best World Cup finishes were 2nd place in Furano, *an in 2006 and 2nd place in Arosa, Switzerland in 2011.
It was announced on January 26, 2010, that Chythlook-Sifsof made the 2010 Winter Olympic Team. She placed 21st in the qualifying round and did not advance.
In February 2014, during the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi, Russia, for which she was not selected, she came out publicly as gay, saying she did so in support of ongoing Olympic protests of Russian anti-gay laws. "It's important to come out and take a stand and show the world that it's not OK to be a bigot."
In 2022, U.S. Senator Chuck Gr*ley (R-Iowa) accused U.S. Ski & Snowboard of interfering with a United States Center for SafeSport investigation into charges by three former athletes and a former U.S. Ski & Snowboard employee against head coach Peter Foley, who coached the team from its 1994 inception. Foley denied the charges. After Chythlook-Sifsof accused Foley of sexually and racially inappropriate remarks in Instagram posts, and others accused Foley of sexual misconduct, he was temporarily suspended by SafeSport, and then let go by US Ski & Snowboard.
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External links
- Official website
- Callan Chythlook-Sifsof at the International Ski Federation
- Callan Chythlook-Sifsof at TeamUSA.org
- Callan Chythlook-Sifsof at U.S. Snowboarding
- "Callan Chythlook-Sifsof at Vancouver2010.com". Archived from the original on May 14, 2010. Retrieved December 8, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
- Callan Chythlook-Sifsof at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)