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Adam Rippon has been speaking his mind for years. May he never stop.

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A post shared by Adam Rippon (@adaripp)Leave it to America’s gay sweetheart, Adam Rippon, to speak his mind. In February 2022, the U.S.

Olympic figure skater–who just four years ago became the first openly gay man to make a U.S. Winter Olympic team, and the first to win a medal at the Winter Games– ripped tore the Olympics a new one when he labeled the women’s figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics “a complete joke” after the Court of Arbitration for Sport decided to allow Russia’s Kamila Valieva to remain in competition despite a failed drug test.In case you needed reminding (was February 5 years ago?), 15-year-old Valieva tested positive for a heart medication, trimetazidine, which athletes have been known to use to help increase circulation and endurance.

The drug allows them to train longer, according to TIME. It’s also on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s banned list so… not a cute look.

A post shared by Adam Rippon (@adaripp)“Every other athlete in this competition is having their whole Olympic experience altered to accommodate an athlete with a FAILED test,” tweeted Rippon at the time.

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