Tate McRae Responds to Backlash Over Winter Olympics Ad

People reports Tate McRae is ending the online discourse around her appearance in an NBC ad for the 2026 Winter Olympics that also features Team U.S.A. athletes. Followers on social media felt she should be rooting for athletes from Canada, her native country, and McRae replied with an Instagram Stories post on Wednesday, Feb.

4, sharing a childhood photo of herself with the Canadian flag captioned "...y'all know I'm Canada down." In the NBC ad McRae appears in a red snowsuit on skis and stops to ask a CGI snowy owl for directions. The exchange includes lines such as "Oh, hi, I'm a bit lost," the owl cooing "Who?" and McRae referencing her hit single with "I'm nobody.

Nobody's girl that is," as she says she is "trying to get to Milan for an amazing opening ceremony and meet Team U.S.A." The spot ends with a snowy owl conversing with a great horned owl in Italian. The advertisement was met with mixed responses, mostly due to McRae's Canadian roots; she does not mention a single Canadian athlete in the commercial.

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