{"id":741583,"date":"2026-02-10T02:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/741583\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:03:17","slug":"u-s-olympian-carrying-out-fantasy-football-punishment-at-games-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/741583\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Olympian carrying out fantasy football punishment at Games \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Casey Dawson<\/a> finished in last place in his fantasy football league \u2014 and he’s paying for it at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Team USA<\/a> speed skater said he’s carrying out his fantasy football punishment while in Italy for the Games. The punishment includes using a phone case that has a rather large fake foot attached to it.<\/p>\n

“The phone case is pretty ridiculous,” Dawson told NBC Sports<\/a>. “It’s huge, clunky.”<\/p>\n

The Park City, Utah, native said he also has to carry around a small, “flashy” backpack that can’t hold that many items. But Dawson is taking the punishment in stride.<\/p>\n

“Whenever I have [the backpack] at the side of the ice, I’ll look at it and it gives me a little smile every time,” he said.<\/p>\n

Dawson is in the fantasy football league with fellow U.S. team pursuit members Emery Lehman<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Ethan Cepuran<\/a>, according to NBC Olympics<\/a>, along with nine other skaters. He told the International Skating Union<\/a> that the the league’s last-place finisher has to carry out the punishment for the entire season.<\/p>\n

Dawson, Lehman and Cepuran are the world record holders in the team pursuit. Dawson and Lehman were part of the bronze medal-winning men’s pursuit team at the 2022 Beijing Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dawson, a two-time Olympian and one-time medalist, competed in his first event of the 2026 Games Sunday, finishing eighth in the men’s 5000m<\/a>. The 25-year-old is also slated to race<\/a> in the men’s 1500m, 10000m and team pursuit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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