Renna, on Switzerland’s RTS broadcast February 16 in Cortina d’Ampezzo, labeled Edelman’s posts as backing a ‘genocide’ in Gaza, citing a UN commission’s finding that Israel disputes, and questioned IOC double standards compared to bans on Russian athletes.
The 34-year-old U.S.-Israeli Edelman, a former skeleton slider, had called the war ‘the most morally just in history’ after Hamas’s 2023 attack.
Edelman fired back on X praising his ‘Shul Runnings’ team’s grit with no coach or big program, as reactions split and RTS stayed silent amid IOC neutrality rules.
