People warned an Olympic gold-medal skier to keep quiet about one of his great passions. He went public with it anyway: He’s a hunter.
When two-time Olympic gold medal-winning skier David Wise started talking publicly about a passion he pursued in his free time, his agent warned him against it. His sponsors balked. Then, a few dropped him.
“You feel like you’re getting broken up with,” said Wise, who’s working to make his third U.S. Olympic team in the ski halfpipe event and compete at next year’s Beijing Games. “It’s like, ‘Why don’t you guys like me anymore?’ And one of the things that they said is, ‘Well, because you’re openly a hunter.’”
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