Olympic bobsledder Justin Kripps's website banned in Russia
Source: CBC News
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.
... CBC's social media lead, Monika Platek, says speculation is the law in question is Russia's infamous one that bans gay propaganda.
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