made an overt protest during the games. here s cnn s coy wire. hi, fred. two olympic hopefuls at the pan american games, one fencer taking a knee and a hammer thrower raising a fist, bringing awareness to social injustice in america knowing they could face discipline. gwen barry raising her fist after winning gold in the hammer throw. much like tommy smith and john carlos at the 1968 olympics. fencer racer boden takes a knee on the podium after winning gold as well in the team foil event on friday. all participants signed agreements that they wouldn t make political, religious or racial remarks during the game. boden won bronze at the 2016 lk games. he tweeted in part we must call for change. this week i am honored to represent team usa. my pride, however, has been cut short by the multiple
kremlin. the first comments from the kremlin s spokesman in the last hour or so, he said the situation is serious and requires close analysis. he said we must keep emotion out of this. so this is an interesting kind of departure from what we ve seen from the kremlin in the past. they ve often been quick to label this as a political western conspiracy. president putin suggesting this was the u.s. trying to meddle in russia. but we did get some of that from poll tigs. one senator earlier this morning saying this is part of the west s policy to try to contain russia. so it certainly is that sentiment among some politicians. as for russia s athletes, their olympic hopefuls, we don t know if they re going to compete under the neutral olympic flag. they are going to try to come to a decision. we ve seen from various comments that there isn t a consensus as yet, so i think there s a sense this morning that everyone is
the chaos last night. it is our responsibility to protect our children and it is government s first job to protect our citizens. that s why i ve joined a bipartisan group of colleagues to offer a bill which is what we intended to come out and talk about this morning initially. it is called protecting young victims from sexual abuse act. unfortunately under the current law amateur athletic governing bodies, organizations responsible for training our olympic hopefuls claimed that they had not been required to promptly report allegations of sexual abuse that they received two the law enforcement authorities. most recently the indianapolis star investigative report uncovered that over the last 20 years, at least 368 children, olympic hopefuls, reported instances of abuse to usa gymnastics based in
that was awesome. that was definitely the best day as a coach. and after watching the video, you can tell how excited she was. the video of zia s jump resonates with more than 1 million youtube viewers. not to mention with fellow jumpers. future olympic hopefuls jessica and abby. after all, it wasn t that long ago they were in the same spot themselves. not only is she showing the world what ski jumping is, but she s showing the world from her perspective. but for her, it was something that i think not a lot of people feel. you know, that adrenaline rush and being scared, but excited at the same time. and the first time i met her, i was just i was so excited that this little girl could bring herself to do that. when we re going to a new hill or we re jumping a bigger hill, there s always a little bit of an adrenaline rush and
temperatures around 62 for today. in the east, we re going to see conditions start to improve in the northeast with the exception of the wind over much of the great lakes. so the severe weather is done for now, but we still have a lot of wind that we re going to have to deal with for the next 24 hours, kate. i m looking closely at chicago. i m headed there tomorrow. very windy. windy, windy. thank you so much. russian president vladimir putin is speaking out about the allegations of rampant widespread state-approved doping among russian olympic athletes. putin called for an investigation into those claims in a report this week that came from the world anti-doping agency. the fate of russian s 2016 olympic hopefuls could be decided tomorrow when the international association of athletic federations, that s the governing body for track and field, when they meet. and it could mean some u.s. athletes could benefit. joining me now phillip hirsch, olympic writer for the chicago trib