News: US Skier Kicked Off Olympic Team
(Long Island, N.Y.) An eighteen-year-old member was kicked off the US Ski Team after allegedly peeing on a girl during a Jet Blue flight. The flight was headed to John F. Kennedy International Airport and the female victim was an eleven-year-old. According to reports, the skier refused to apologize and claimed that he was too drunk to realize what he had been doing.
Sources stated that the young girl had been sleeping when the incident occurred. Reports described the eighteen-year-old skier as one of seventy-five of the most talent skiers in the country. Since the repercussions of the incident, he has lost the opportunity to compete with the United States in the 2014 Winter Games that are to be held in Russia.
Prior to his dismissal from the world class team, his name had been removed from the team’s developmental roster. Many of the officials involved with the decision refused to comment about the developing story. According to sources, the skier’s family lives in an extravagant home in Vermont.
The eighteen-year-old allegedly ignored questions about the incident, which occurred on a redeye flight from Portland. The skier had been traveling home from a training camp at Oregon’s Mount Hood facility. He had been there a week with fellow members of the US Ski Team.
The eleven-year-old victim had been traveling with her father and sister. Her father, who had recently been diagnosed with stage four cancer, returned from the plane’s bathroom with his other daughter to witness the incident. The trio had been on their way to visit the girl’s grandmother who lives in eastern Long Island.
The trip was set to be the first since the family had discovered the devastating news of the advanced disease. According to reports, the obscene incident occurred shortly after takeoff and the skier had been sitting five rows behind the girl. The six-foot-four and nearly two-hundred-pound skier then proceeded to urinate on the child’s leg.
Flight attendants were called to separate a physical altercation between the drunken skier and the girl’s father. Sources stated that the eighteen-year-old admitted to ingesting eight drinks prior to the flight. He was later issued a federal summons for indecent exposure, which was later dropped.
The skier was able to avoid criminal charges because the girl’s father refused to allow his daughter to speak about the traumatizing event. He later took the family to a Yankee game.
Later reports claimed that the skier believed he had urinated on the floor and not the girl’s leg. No sources stated that the eighteen-year-old was being presented with any charges of underage drinking.
