{"id":121,"date":"2014-02-07T10:41:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T15:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/?p=121"},"modified":"2014-02-07T13:10:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T18:10:25","slug":"lesbian-snowboarder-cheryl-maas-shows-rainbow-glove-to-camera-in-sochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/2014\/02\/07\/lesbian-snowboarder-cheryl-maas-shows-rainbow-glove-to-camera-in-sochi\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesbian snowboarder Cheryl Maas shows rainbow glove to camera in Sochi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-125 aligncenter\" alt=\"maas\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/maas-300x200.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/maas-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/files\/2014\/02\/maas.jpg 541w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><em>Cheryl Maas, a Dutch snowboarder is the first Olympic athlete to make a statement regarding her stance on gay rights at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Maas was on her second run during slopestyle when she messed up. The camera&#8217;s cut to the 29 year-old snowboarder anticipating her score.<\/p>\n<p>Upon scoring, she resigned to the fact that she did not make the finals and would have to try again during the semis on Saturday. Maas threw her gloved hand up towards the camera showing off her rainbow and unicorn glove.\u00a0Maas is a happily married lesbian, her gesture was likely related Vladimir Putin&#8217;s recent\u00a0anti-gay propoganda bill\u00a0which outlaws \u201cnon-traditional sexual practices\u201d from being promoted in public.<\/p>\n<p>After Maas qualified for the\u00a02014 Winter Olympics, she criticized the\u00a0International Olympic Committee\u00a0for hosting the Olympics in\u00a0gay-unfriendly Russia.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-121-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/v.cdn.vine.co\/videos_trellis\/2014\/02\/07\/A806FBC2731043581555735777280_1.4.7.2148444377706156342.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/v.cdn.vine.co\/videos_trellis\/2014\/02\/07\/A806FBC2731043581555735777280_1.4.7.2148444377706156342.mp4\">https:\/\/v.cdn.vine.co\/videos_trellis\/2014\/02\/07\/A806FBC2731043581555735777280_1.4.7.2148444377706156342.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maas is one of six openly gay atheletes that is competing in the Sochi Olympics, and will likely not be the last to make a statement regarding LGBT rights during the games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheryl Maas, a Dutch snowboarder is the first Olympic athlete to make a statement regarding her stance on gay rights at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Maas was on her second run during slopestyle when she messed up. The camera&#8217;s cut to the 29 year-old snowboarder anticipating her score. Upon scoring, she resigned to the fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23,33,13],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cheryl-maas","9":"tag-olympics2014","10":"tag-sochi-olympics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}