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United States Freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy answers questions at a press conference at the Main Press Centre during the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games on February 11, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea.Photo by Ker Robertson—Getty Images by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Feb 24, 2018 4:20 PM UTC While [Gus Kenworthy](http://time.com/5164823/lgbt-gus-kenworthy-olympics-2018/) wasn’t able to bring home a medal at this year’s PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games, he will be bringing home something a bit furrier — a new dog. After a trip to a [dog meat farm](http://time.com/5087207/south-korea-olympics-dog-meat/) with his boyfriend Matt Wilkas, Kenworthy decided to take one of the dogs home, [NBC reported](https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/gus-kenworthy-adopts-another-olympic-puppy-after-visiting-korean-dog-meat-farm). The dog meat farm is in the process of being shut down and all 90 dogs are being taken from the facility to the United States and Canada for adoption. It’s not the first time Kenworthy has made dogs a priority at the Winter Games. Four years ago in [Sochi](http://time.com/5041360/matt-lauer-sochi-olympics/), Kenworthy helped bring stray dogs back to the United States. “Across the country there are 2.5 million dogs being raised for food in some of the most disturbing conditions imaginable,” Kenworthy posted on Instagram. Kenworthy also added that eating dogs is part of Korean culture and that while “it’s not my place to impose western ideals on the people here,” he was concerned about the conditions the dogs were kept in. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5174100/gus-kenworthy-dog-meat-farm/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5174100/gus-kenworthy-dog-meat-farm/"},"headline":"Olympian Gus Kenworthy Is Bringing Home a Dog From PyeongChang","datePublished":"2018-02-24T16:20:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T19:25:36.466Z","description":"Kenworthy also brought stray dogs to the United States when he was in Sochi","url":"https://time.com/5174100/gus-kenworthy-dog-meat-farm/","keywords":["2018 Pyeongchang Olympics","Winter Olympics","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9408cedcb7a87fe4/698928cf8fd2ee43c535ad0b/gus-kenworthy-adopts-dog-meat-factory.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lisa Marie Segarra","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9408cedcb7a87fe4/698928cf8fd2ee43c535ad0b/gus-kenworthy-adopts-dog-meat-factory.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Around the Games: Day 2 - Winter Olympic Games","caption":"Around the Games: Day 2 - Winter Olympic Games","creditText":"Photo by Ker Robertson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2018-pyeongchang-olympics/","name":"2018 Pyeongchang Olympics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5174100/gus-kenworthy-dog-meat-farm/","name":"Olympian Gus Kenworthy Is Bringing Home a Dog From PyeongChang"}}]}] ```