Katie Schide Drops Truth Bomb on Freetrail

The latest Freetrail episode with Katie and Jim was meant to celebrate these two winning ‘Trail Runner of the Year’. During the conversation Dylan Bowman points out that out of the 4 Americans (of the twenty athletes in the top ten at this year’s TROY) 3 of them (Ben, Katie and Jim) live in France and don’t actually resides this side of the Atlantic. This leads to DBO asking the innocent yet fateful question if Katie would ever think of moving back to the US. And here’s where Katie does something that hardly any of the pro athletes have dared to do this past year: she drops the reality that her husband is French and if they’d move over here he’d be an immigrant and that this might be difficult right now. Of course poor cheerleader DBO didn’t even have this perspective on his radar and immediately shifted the conversation since this reality can’t ever come up as a topic – “shut up and dribble” and all. But massive kudos to Katie for not shying away from pointing out that America isn’t the “Garden of Eden” that it once was and increasingly it’s safer and better (hello healthcare!) to live literally anywhere else but here. Jim too at the WMTRC hinted at the fact that wearing the ‘red white and blue’ while representing team USA isn’t what it once was.

Man oh man, we’re having the Winter Olympics in Cortina/Milano coming up here shortly and the Soccer World Cup later this summer. This will be a rough year for fans of Sports Team USA.