Kylie Kelce Says Female Olympians Are 'Carrying Team USA' on Their Backs: 'Gives You Something to Laugh About'
Kylie Kelce Says Female Olympians Are 'Carrying Team USA' on Their Backs: 'Gives You Something to Laugh About'
Rachel McRadyThu, February 26, 2026 at 2:15 PM UTC
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Jason and Kylie Kelce watch Team USA's women's hockey team win gold at the Milan Winter Olympics.Credit: Andreas Rentz/Getty; Xavier Laine/Getty -
Kylie Kelce praised U.S. women athletes for winning two-thirds of Team USA’s gold medals at the Winter Olympics
She criticized past dismissive comments about female athletes, emphasizing their consistent dominance over six consecutive Games
Kylie also applauded Flavor Flav for celebrating female Olympians and supporting underrepresented sports over multiple years
Kylie Kelce is making her support of female Olympians clear.
The 33-year-old field hockey coach and mother of four praised the Team USA women’s hockey team as well as the other female athletes who medaled at the Milan Winter Olympics on the latest episode of her Not Gonna Lie podcast released Thursday, Feb. 26.
“The women of Team USA officially won eight of 12 of our gold medals at the Winter Olympics,” Kylie, who attended the Olympics in Milan as a part of NBC and YouTube, noted. “That means Team USA won a total of 12 gold medals, and eight of them — that's right — two-thirds of them who were women. How about that?”
Adding even more impressive stats, Kylie said, “I love this so much. Plus 21 of our 33 or 63.6% of total Team USA medals were won by women. Because women's sports, period. That's it.”
Jason Kelce, U.S. women's hockey team player Laila Edwards and Kylie Kelce pose for the 'Not Gonna Lie' podcastCredit: USA Hockey/Instagram
Further emphasizing the achievement of the women, Kylie added, “This is the sixth sixth, one, two, three, four. five, sixth consecutive Olympics where U.S. women have won more gold and total medals than — you guessed it — the men.”
The podcaster then giggled and made a seemingly pointed comment, adding, “And to that, I say, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. It gives you something to laugh about…. Interesting. Let's f---ing go, ladies.”
Kylie then appeared to be making a dig at the controversy surrounding President Donald Trump’s phone call to the Team USA men’s hockey team. After inviting the men’s team to the State of the Union and the White House, Trump, 79, seemingly made a dig at the women’s team.
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“I must tell you, we’re going to have to bring the women’s team,” he said as he began to laugh, prompting members of the men’s team to laugh along with him. “You do know that. I do believe I’d probably would be impeached [if the women’s team wasn’t invited].”
Kylie went on to say she looked up the women’s statistics, because, “We just want to make sure everyone’s aware of the women carrying Team USA on their backs.” She added, “And to the giggles… YUCK.”
And while Kylie didn’t directly call out the president, she did praise rapper Flavor Flav for his support after the rapper invited female athletes and Paralympic medalists to Las Vegas to celebrate them.
Team USA women's hockey wins gold medals at the Milan Winter OlympicsCredit: Xavier Laine/Getty
“You know what, shout out to Flava Flav for his support of, really, the Olympics in general and Team USA, but especially leaning into his support of women in sports across,” Kylie said. “I mean, he's been doing it from, like, multiple Olympics now, not only supporting female athletes, but then also supporting sports that might not get as much visibility.”
On Feb. 24, Flav took to Instagram to personally invite the female athletes to Vegas. He wrote, “We got you covered, we gonna do some nice dinners, throw a big party and a parade and a concert,,, and go to some concerts and shows. Thankx to all the companies and brands and musicians and entertainers who reached out. We gonna celebrate and show em SHE GOT GAME!!”
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