Tate McRae responds to Olympics ad backlash with throwback photo

Canadian-born pop star Tate McRae doubled down on her roots after followers on social media had been outraged by her help of Workforce USA in a current advert selling the Milan Cortina Olympics and Tremendous Bowl LX.

McRae, a local of Calgary, Alberta, appeared to accentuate the sporting rivalry between Canada and the US when she appeared in an advert for NBC. Within the clip, shared on Instagram together with her 9 million followers, McRae expressed her pleasure about assembly American athletes, together with Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn.

Lindsey Vonn takes half within the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup girls’s downhill on the Prampero slope on Monte Lussari. The occasion passed off in Tarvisio, Italy, on January 17, 2026. (Mattia Ozbot/Getty Photographs)

“I am attempting to get to Milan for a terrific opening ceremony and meet Workforce USA,” she stated within the advert. “I will be spending the week with a few of America’s finest skaters for gold and Lindsey Vonn’s epic comeback. And again to the USA for the massive recreation, Tremendous Bowl LX,” she stated within the business.

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Amid rising political tensions between the 2 border international locations – which made their manner into the sporting world through the 4 Nations Face-Off – McRae’s help for Workforce USA didn’t seem to take a seat effectively with Canadians, who, amongst different issues, known as her a “traitor.”

However McRae took to social media to reply to the backlash and maybe reveal the place her loyalties actually lie.

McRae posted a childhood picture of herself holding the Canadian flag with the caption: “…y’all know I am Canada.”

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However not everybody on social media appeared to just accept McRae’s response.

“Sure, no. Her assertion ‘All of you’ says in any other case,” somebody wrote on X.

Tate McRae performs on stage through the 2025 iHeartRadio Music Pageant at T-Cell Enviornment. The efficiency passed off in Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 19, 2025. (Kevin Winter/Getty Photographs for iHeartRadio)

“Then why help the US workforce? Typically it is necessary to help your individual nation and never simply go for the cash, particularly in instances like these,” one other added.

“Harm management,” got here one other response.

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The responses to McRae’s advert set the stage for escalating tensions between the US and Canada.

Most lately within the skeleton competitors, many People stay outraged by the absence of five-time Olympian Katie Uhlaender in Milan Cortina after it was decided that Workforce Canada rigged an Olympic qualifying match final month that prevented Uhlaender from incomes sufficient factors to make it to this yr’s Winter Video games.

Katie Uhlaender (USA) competes within the girls’s skeleton occasion on the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics on the Olympic Sliding Heart in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on February 17, 2018. (James Lang/USA TODAY Sports activities)

Fox Information Digital’s Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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