ZHANGJIAKOU, China (AP) Gus Kenworthy certainly wishes his final Olympic trip down the mountain didnt have to come in China.

Yet skipping the trip didnt seem like the right thing, either.

The freestyle skier whose kiss with his boyfriend at the bottom of the hill stole the show four years ago in Pyeongchang is competing for his mothers native country of Britain this time around. He is 30, has had a recent bout with COVID-19 and has been dinged up a bunch over the past year. All of that leaves him content knowing that hell be calling it a career after this.

Hes nowhere near as sanguine about having to make his curtain call in China a country with a troubling human rights record where same-sex marriage is not recognized.

I dont think countries should be allowed to host the Games when they have things happening that are so egregious, and there are insane human rights atrocities happening, Kenworthy said in an interview earlier this winter, before he arrived in China.