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Team GB athlete Gus Kenworthy has escaped sanction after urinating a "f*** ICE" message in the snow and sharing it on social media following his arrival in Italy for the 2026 Winter Olympics.

The Winter Olympics was mired in controversy even before Friday night's opening ceremony in Milan. Milan mayor Giuseppe Sala criticised US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after learning that federal agents would be stationed at the Olympic venue.

The outcry has prompted Team USA to rebrand its hospitality headquarters, formerly called 'The Ice House. ' Kenworthy, a former Team USA athlete who was labelled a traitor after switching to Team GB, has made his stance on the federal agents abundantly clear.

Kenworthy has garnered significant support on social media after posting the "f*** ICE" image to his 1.3 million Instagram followers. The freestyle skier performed the stunt as an anti-ICE demonstration, encouraging people to contact their local senator as agents have been accused of deaths in Minneapolis.

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"You can call your Senator at (202) 224-3121 to speak up against ICE and put pressure on them during the current DHS funding negotiations," he posted on Instagram. Kenworthy then included an example script, enabling people to copy and paste it with modifications, reports the Mirror US.

"Here's a sample script. Hi, my name is [Your Name], and I'm a constituent from [Your City, State]. I'm calling to urge Senator [Name] to refuse to support any final Department of Homeland Security funding agreement that fails to meaningfully rein in ICE and Border Patrol.

"Innocent people have been murdered, and enough is enough. We can't wait around while ICE continues to operate with unchecked power in our communities.

"Senators still have leverage right now, and Senator [Name] must use it to demand real guardrails and accountability - including getting ICE and CBP out of our communities, ending blank-check funding for brutality, and establishing clear limits on warrantless arrests, profiling, and enforcement at sensitive locations like schools and hospitals."

Nevertheless, Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter seeks to keep sport and politics separate, declaring it a "fundamental principle that sport is neutral and must be separate from political, religious or any other type of interference."

Yet Kenworthy has escaped any form of sanction from the International Olympic Committee and will take part in the Milan-Cortina Games as scheduled. The 34 year old skier, who was born in England, competed for Team USA in 2014 before changing his allegiance.

Kenworthy secured a silver medal in Sochi but was subsequently branded a traitor for departing Team USA to represent Team GB. Despite the criticism, Kenworthy harbours no regrets.

"I feel good about it," he told People. "I mean, I do feel like I'm American, but I also do feel like I'm British, and that's where I was born and my mum's British.

"I've definitely gotten s*** where people are like, 'You're a traitor,' and I don't think of it that way. I had this choice in 2014 to go for either country and at that time I was like, 'Well, I live in the States. I wanna go for the States,' and I did and I won a medal and I represented the States at another Games after that."