--- title: Sochi Winter Olympics: Kate Hansen Cries Wolf in Reported Kimmel Hoax description: And the video has gone viral canonical: https://time.com/9231/sochi-winter-olympics-2014-wolf-luge/ author: Olivia B. 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Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 20, 2014 8:11 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 20, 2014 8:11 PM UTC **Updated at 4:15 p.m.:** Various news outlets are reporting that the United States Luge Association has confirmed to _Inside Edition_ that the video is a stunt organized by Jimmy Kimmel and that the athlete, Kate Hansen, will Skype with the late-night host. Athletes and journalists at the Winter Olympics in Sochi have been complaining about everything from two toilets in a bathroom stall to discolored water. Now, Kate Hansen of the U.S. Olympic Luge team has uploaded a YouTube video of “an intruder” outside of her dorm room. “I’m pretty sure this is a wolf wandering my hall in Sochi,” she writes on her [YouTube page](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qZA-xOeQmE). The video has gone viral, racking up more than 700,000 views and more than 2,000 retweets. But because Sochi is known for [stray dogs](http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/07/dog-days-of-winter-sochis-unwanted-strays-prepare-for-the-olympic-games/) roaming the streets, it is more likely Hansen saw one of those. **PHOTOS:** [The Stray Dogs of Sochi](http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/07/dog-days-of-winter-sochis-unwanted-strays-prepare-for-the-olympic-games/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/9231/sochi-winter-olympics-2014-wolf-luge/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/9231/sochi-winter-olympics-2014-wolf-luge/"},"headline":"Olympic Luger's Video of 'Wolf' Outside of Her Room Is Reportedly a Jimmy Kimmel Hoax","datePublished":"2014-02-20T20:11:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:44.300Z","description":"And the video has gone viral","url":"https://time.com/9231/sochi-winter-olympics-2014-wolf-luge/","keywords":["Newsfeed","olympics","animals","Sochi"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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