Video: Billie Jean King talks about Sochi Olympics
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My hero Billie Jean King was on The Today Show this morning talking about her role as an official US delegate at next month’s Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Of course Russia has that anti-gay propaganda law that makes President Obama’s selection of BJK and two other gay athletes a nice statement.
She tells Matt Lauer: “When we step off the plane we are part of America. We are what an America looks like. So I think President Obama has done an amazing job on promoting diversity and inclusion. He has been the all-time president for doing that. And he’s showing the Russians, ‘Listen everybody belongs in the United States of America.’”
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James says:
When I was VERY young, I met Billy Jean King. I had NO idea who she was. I got her autograph and promptly lost it. Oh, the stupidity of youth.