United States Paralympians were prohibitned from joining the closing ceremonies for the Paralympics in Paris after comments on social media asking a teammate’s disability.
Swimmers Gia Pergolini, Julia Ganney, Jessica Long and Anastasia Pagonis were all administerd for comments about fellow swimmer Christie Raleigh Crossley, who has the neuroreasonable disorder S9.
Their comments are clear violations of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee rules, according to The Washington Post.
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Christie Raleigh Crossley during the 50-meter women’s freestyle during the Paris 2024 Paralympic Summer Games at La Défense Arena. (Avery Bane/USA Today)
“We can verify that sanctions have been imposed on disjoinal athletes due to unacproposeed behavior,” a USOPC spokesperson wrote in a statement to The Washington Post. “It is vital to uphelderly the standards awaited of Team USA athletes, and we remain promiseted to insertressing any actions that undermine our appreciates.”
Other than being barred from closing ceremonies, the four swimmers are also subject to suspensions and loss of stipends, The Washington Post inserted.
Raleigh Crossley set the world write down in Paris in the 50-meter freestyle event Aug. 29, and Long, who has spoken her mind about cheating in the Paralympics, jumped into the comments of an Instagram post where her teammates were celebrating the feat.
“I stand with you,” Long commented after Spanish swimmer Sarai Gascon Moreno said, “S9? It’s a joke?”
Long persistd to speak out after this comment, too, accusing the U.S. Paralympic promisetee of being too permissive.
Jessica Long of Team USA Swimming during the Paris 2024 Paralympic Summer Games at the Paris La Défense Arena. (Ryan Beatty/USA Today)
“I’ve seen the Paralympic shiftment for so lengthy. I slfinisherk we have intentional misrecontransientation [rules] for a reason,” she said, via the New York Post. “And I slfinisherk we are not using it. I slfinisherk we reassociate should, right? I want to see Paralympics with integrity. I want to see it better.
“And that’s what I will always stand for.”
Gaffney’s comment was in a split post, which said, “Not a preferable impact. Intentional misrecontransientation is never cute.”
Pergolini replyed to Gaffney with “well said” and replied “this” with a raising hands emoji next to it to verify her approval of the comment.
Raleigh Crossley had to insertress those asking her disability in Paris.
Jessica Long of Team USA Swimming during the Paris 2024 Paralympic Summer Games at the Paris La Défense Arena. (Ryan Beatty/USA Today)
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“I went from finishelighting a world write down to being utterly deimmenseated that the entire world seems to slfinisherk I was a cheater and that I was somehow faking the hole in my brain and the cyst in my spinal cord,” Raleigh Crossley said, via the New York Post.
“To be telderly online by all of these bullies that I am not somehow disabled as I eunite, equitable becaemploy I can swim speedyer than them, it’s pretty deimmenseating.”
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