Figure Skating warned against any potential American boycott of the Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. USFS president Sam Auxier, asked Wednesday about Sen. Lindsey Graham's comments that North Korea competing in next month's games should prompt a U.S. team boycott, said Graham and others "need to be careful" about the American team not participating. "Allowing Kim Jong Un's North Korea to participate in [the] Winter Olympics would give legitimacy to the most illegitimate regime on the planet," the South Carolina Republican tweeted. "I'm confident South Korea will reject this absurd overture and fully believe that if North Korea goes to the Winter Olympics, we do not." The last thing American figure skaters want is to be drawn into any such debate as their national championships, which serve as the Olympic Trials, began Wednesday.

Source: CBC News January 04, 2018 02:48 UTC