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The Israel Olympic team, Adam Edelman, is looking to take his team back to winter games for the first time from Pyeongchang in 2018.
If they qualify for curtain-milan next year, it would mark the return of him and his teammates to the Olympic Games after not qualifying for Beijing in 2022. He would also mark his first trip back to the winter games since Hamas attacked his country on October 7, 2023.
“We had the blessing of having a team ready to go on October 7 and when it arrived on October 7, when it was perpetrated in Israel, each of them had to be called to war. So the team’s dynamics really changed in the last two years,” Edelman told Pak Gazette Digital.
“The goal of the team after October 7 was to exist.”
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Adam Edelman of Israel slows down at the end of the Skeleton Heat 2 of the men during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games, at the Olympic Sliding Center on February 15, 2018 in Pyeongchang, South Korea. (Mark Ralston/AFP through Getty Images)
Edelman recalled that his team has adapted to a new headline in each competition in which he participated, for a while.
All the time, he had to live below the poverty line to maintain his commitment to lead the team for the past 12 years. He even says he had to sell his entire Bitcoin, which says he would have earned millions today if he clings.
“Everything was spent on Bobsledding,” he said. “It would be a mega-millionaire if I still have it.”
Edelman admits that he could have done the things much easier for himself if he, a Massachusetts native and MIT’s graduate, competed for the US team. Uu. Instead of Israel.
In a sport that depends on resources such as Bobslledding, nicknamed F1 in ICE due to its strong costs to be competitive, Edelman knows that he would have had access to more resources for training, training, equipment and marketing.
However, for him, that would have defeated the point of competing as Olympic at all.
“I do not add anything to the United States. If I joined the United States, the only value that would have been added is to my own trip, but it makes my trip additive to the trips of other people,” said Edelman.
“My value to the world, and why God put me on this earth, I really feel is to use the skills I gave me to impact others positively … so I’m just motivated to represent Israel. I have thought about this a lot.”
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Adam Edelman, from Israel, reacts in the completion area during the male skeleton that is heated at the Olympic Sliding Center on February 16, 2018 in Pyeongchang-Gun, South Korea. (Matthias Hangst/Getty images)
Even so, Edelman is a proud American and believes that the United States is “the best country that has ever existed in the history of mankind.”
In addition, as a American Jew, Edelman also proud to see President Donald Trump take energetic measures against the wave of anti -Semitism that has exploded after October 7. Edelman said he saw the anti-Semitism closely when he went to Columbia during his pro-Palestinian protests in 2024.
The Trump administration has frozen billions of dollars to the universities of the Ivy League Columbia and Harvard, declaring that schools violated the civil rights of Jewish students by enabling the protests of the anti-Semitic campus in the midst of Israel-Gaza’s conflict during the last year and a half.
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The president has even launched a specialized working group of the Department of Justice led by Leo Terrell to address the problem.
“The suitability of what the Trump administration has asked is to simply enforce the law. It is just saying” hey, these people are protected by the Civil Rights Law “and the civil rights law is not blatantly imposing. If people take over, they transfer, they assault the security guards, they harass the Jews on the way to the class, they establish free zones of Jews, they do not do it for another group.
The Trump administration also announced in early April that it would stop more than $ 1 billion in funds for the University of Cornell and approximately $ 790 million for the Northwestern University amid research on alleged civil rights violations.
Approximately $ 510 million in funds for Brown University could also be in the cutting block, said a White House official to The Associated Press on April 3, due to accusations of anti -Semitism at school.
“I think the way in which the Trump administration has addressed many problems since it came to office is exactly the correct form,” said Edelman.
Adam Edelman in Israel removes the helmet after a training session for the male skeleton during the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games, at the Olympic Sliding Center on February 14, 2018 in Pyeongchang, South Korea. (Mohd Rasfan/AFP through Getty Images)
“Some policies are good, some policies are bad, and this is an inexplicably good policy. Be sure that American institutions of higher education do not continue this path to be so inaccessible to Americans, but also centers for the indoctrination of anti -American values.”
While Edelman seeks to push his team back to the Winter Olympic Games in Cortina Milan in 2026, he aspires to be a voice for Americans and Jews at a complicated moment in history.
He hopes that the rest of the story can appreciate the history of helpless for which he and his teammates are going through.
