Champion cyclist says she would serve in IDF right now amid removal from International Women's Day event

Leah Goldstein appeared on OutKick's "Don't @ Me with Dan Dakich" and spoke about the controversy around her Israeli military service.

Leah Goldstein, a champion road racing cyclist who was barred from Inspire's International Women’s Day event in Canada due to her previous service in Israel’s military, said Monday she would reenlist if the country needed her again.

Goldstein was born in Canada but raised in Israel and served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) more than 30 years ago. Inspire invited Goldstein to speak at the March 8 event, but the invitation was revoked after an "extremely vocal group" took issue with it.

The Race Across America champion, who also won a world kickboxing championship when she was 17, appeared on OutKick’s "Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich" and said the organization wanted her to make a statement about the cancellation. She said there would only be one statement she’d make.

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"They wanted me to make a statement, too. I mean, what kind of statement were they expecting from me? The only statement I would make is that I was very proud to serve and if Israel needed a 55-year-old right now, I’d jump on a plane tomorrow," she said. "There, that’s the statement they’d get from me."

Goldstein then chuckled and said that statement probably wouldn’t go over very well.

"Seriously, do we really need to bring politics into this? … It’s insane. I’d run for president or for prime minister, whatever. I’m not into politics. I don’t want anything to do with it. I keep away from it. It’s what divides us. And it has nothing to do with who I am or what I represent or what I speak about. So, what the hell are they bringing this in? They’re just using the IDF as an