The website of Canadian Olympic bobsledder Justin Kripps has been banned in Russia, after an image he posted of himself and his teammates in their underwear last month went viral.
The image, posted on Kripps’s personal website Jan. 17, spread rapidly on social media and received coverage by various mainstream news organizations.
Kripps is in Sochi for the Winter Olympics, and discovered the page wouldn’t load after he logged into his website from his cellphone.
Instead, he saw an error message in Russian text.
He ran the text through an online translator, which said the website had been “restricted” in Russia. The error message says the website has been restricted for information prohibited by Russian law.
CBC’s social media lead, Monika Platek, says speculation is the law in question is Russia’s infamous one that bans gay propaganda.
Platek spoke to Kripps on Friday and quoted him as saying that if that’s the case, the law has gone too far.
“‘It’s pretty crazy,’” Platek quoted Kripps as saying.
Excuse me where do I apply to be the bobsled?
Freedumbring 