Ashlee Bond is the first Christian athlete to represent Israel at the Olympics. Bond participated in both the Tokyo and Paris Olympic games and described the situation as being “very demonic.”
Ashlee was not alone in feeling that there was something about the Paris Olympics that was demonic. Christians around the world could see from the beginning that stage was set when the trans-community united in an opening ceremony that was not just anti-Christian, but more egregiously, aggressively attacked the innocence of children, with minors lined up at a table while being sexually exposed to a bearded man dressed like a woman, moving as if he were demon possessed.
It also impacted the games as Muslims refused to even acknowledge their Jewish competitors.
The thing that Ashlee found the most jarring however were the multiple, graphic death threats that Israel’s athletes were subjected to throughout the entire competition.
“It was definitely nerve-racking, to say the least,” Ashlee reported. “I pride myself on being a pretty tough person, someone who isn’t shaken too easily.” But the threats were not just generic. They were personal and specific. “[The threats] singled me out personally, along with … I believe 16 other Israeli athletes saying … ‘If you fly over, you drive over, we run the airports, we run the streets, we will have blood run in the streets like Munich in ’72,’” she said, referencing the 1972 terror attack that claimed the lives of 11 Israeli Olympians. “That was a little concerning.”
The threats were concerning because they were not generically sent to the committee, but to the personal emails of each individual athlete, including Ashlee herself. Ashlee let go of her fears by leaning on Jesus, focusing on her calling and not any of the threats.
Ashlee said that understanding it was pretty simple. She knows the world is “sinful,” and the “media is, for the most part, very demonic, and they want to push their agenda, and the devil is trying to get as many souls as he can…but I can still be a participant as an Olympic athlete and just … spread the Word of the Lord and be that light.”
