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Over the Summer Flavor Flav found himself once again making some noise as not only was he recognized as one of Team USA’s biggest cheerleaders during the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, but he and Alexis Ohanian helped pay the rent of Team USA’s Track and Field athlete, Veronica Fraley.
Continuing to keep that Olympian love going into September, Flavor Flav once again demonstrated how good of a human being the man is and during last night’s MTV Video Music Awards, the Hip-Hop icon blessed Olympic gymnast, Jordan Chiles with the kind of gift that only he could give.
According to the Huffpost, the “Fight The Power” artist blessed Chiles with a shiny bronze-colored clock after the gymnast was stripped of her bronze medal after the Romanian Federation of Gymnastics filed an appeal on behalf of Ana Barbosu of Romania. Naturally this sparked outrage and disbelief amongst Americans and moved Flavor Flav to announce that he had a bronze medal of his own in the works for Chiles.
Last night, he was finally able to gift it to her.
The Huffpost reports:
The moment came roughly a month after an arbitration panel said it wouldn’t reconsider its decision on Chiles’ medal. USA Gymnastics pledged to continue to “pursue every possible avenue and appeal process,” including a potential court case.
Flav, who took the stage with Chiles to present the Best Collaboration category, turned the VMAs appearance into a “little Olympic moment.”
“I know they tried to take your medal away from you, but you know what? I got you something that they can’t take away from you,” said Flav, before showing the gift to Chiles.
The gymnast glowed with a smile as Flav tied a string necklace with the clock on it around her neck. Then, as Chiles looked on, stunned, Flav donned a Team USA water polo hat.
Gotta love Flavor Flav, b.
While we doubt she’ll be walking around in public with the bronze piece, it’s still a nice gesture and overall beautiful moment.
Check out Flava Flav gift Jordan Chiles a custom bronze clock below and let us know your thoughts in the comments section.
Flavor Flav honors Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles with a custom bronze clock #VMAs pic.twitter.com/ynX3gbzLtU
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