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  • Jessie Vetter's Team USA goalie mask required to remove Constitution rendering

    01/16/2014 7:21:12 PM PST · by workerbee · 25 replies
    Fox ^ | 1/16/14 | Karl de Vries
    When Team USA women’s hockey goalie Jessie Vetter takes to the ice next month at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, her mask will be missing something. Namely, the U.S. Constitution. The International Olympic Committee, citing regulation, has required the 28-year-old goalie to remove an inscription bearing “We the People” on a custom mask made for her. The mask’s artist, Ron Slater, told FoxNews.com that he believes the IOC sees it as “propaganda” promoting the United States over other countries – anathema to an event in which all athletes are regarded equally. “It ruffles the wrong feathers, I guess,” said...