While Snoop Dogg was taking swimming lessons with Michael Phelps and learning the finer points of dressage with Martha Stewart, fellow hip-hop icon Flavor Flav was also zooming all around Paris checking out as many Olympic competitions as possible. The Public Enemy rapper who famously jetted over to support his beloved USA women’s water polo team didn’t let the end of the games stop him from continuing the flag-waving, though.
On Monday night (August 12), the MC best known for sporting a ubiquitous oversized clock pendant around his neck offered to supply U.S. gymnastics team star Jordan Chiles with some new bronze bling after she was ordered to return her bronze medal from the individual floor exercise competition following what the sport’s governing body said was a late protest filed by her coach over scoring.
“FLAVOR FLAV::: USA gonna Fight The Powers that be,,, but in the meantime between time,,, I gots yo back @jordanchiles Hit me up 👍🏾,” Flav wrote on Instagram alongside a video of a giant, bejeweled bronze clock pendant spinning in front of an American flag. USA Gymnastics announced on Monday )(August 12) that the Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) denied the tumbler’s appeal to reinstate the bronze she received after the August 5 final.
Chiles initially came in fifth place when the competition ended, putting her behind Romanian gymnasts Ana Barbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea, who were tied at 13.700; Chiles’ original score was 13.666. After her coaches appealed the score, arguing that she didn’t get enough credit for the more difficult maneuvers in her routine, the judges agreed and changed Chiles’ score to 13.766, putting her in the bronze medal zone. On Saturday, CAS ruled that Chiles’ challenge came four seconds to late, resulting in her losing her medal.
Before the games kicked off, Flav took a liking to the women’s water polo team and pledged $1,000 and a free cruise for all the chronically underpaid athletes and later offered to help 24-year-old discus hurler Veronica Fraley after the Vanderbilt University student said she couldn’t afford her rent. “I gotchu,,, DM me and I’ll send payment TODAY so you don’t have to worry bout it TOMORROW,” Flav replied to Fraley’s lament.
Check out Flav’s offer to Chiles below.