Taste Flav reveals the customized bronze clock he is had made for Olympic gymnast, Jordan Chiles
Public Enemy’s Taste Flav has revealed the customized bronze clock he’s had made for Olympic gymnast, Jordan Chiles, this week (August 12).
The gymnast was ordered to return a bronze medal that she received on the Paris Olympics by the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC). Chiles competed within the particular person ground train on the Olympics and was awarded a bronze medal after an preliminary enchantment from her coach altered her rating.
Nonetheless, after this, the Romanian Gymnastics Federation filed an enchantment of their very own that reversed the choice after it was dominated that Chiles’ coach made her enchantment simply 4 seconds too late.
The IOC then subsequently introduced on August 11 that the bronze medal had been reallocated to Romanian gymnast Ana Bărbosu. The USA Gymnastics crew has since challenged the ruling with video proof of Chiles’ coach interesting the choice in time and has mentioned it goals to “pursue each doable avenue and enchantment course of, together with to the Swiss Federal Tribunal” (as per Consequence).
When information of this emerged, Flav promised to make a customized bronze clock necklace for Chiles after the choice.
Now, Flav has posted an image of the jewellery on his Instagram page. “USA gonna Struggle The Powers that be,” he wrote within the caption. He added: “however within the meantime between time, I gots yo again @jordanchiles Hit me up.”
Whereas Chiles just isn’t on social media at the moment following information of the choice, her mom Gina posted on her account, saying the gesture “means the world” to her daughter.
You may see the posts right here:
Ayyy YOOOO @ChilesJordan ,,, imma make you a BRONZE CLOCK NECKLACE,,, and that’s one thing NO ONE else has,!!! Hit me up my woman,,, I gotchu,!!! pic.twitter.com/qFVzkgkx25
— FLAVOR FLAV (@FlavorFlav) August 11, 2024
Thanks. Means the world. She’s not on socials proper now as you may think about. I will share it along with her. 🫶🏽 https://t.co/HzavHHYxhp
— Gina Chiles (@gina_chiles) August 13, 2024
Taste Flav has been closely concerned within the Paris Olympics, changing into one of many shock viral hits of the video games because the “official hype man” for the US girls’s water polo crew.
“That is fairly an expertise for me proper now, you realize, as a result of the one time I’ve ever seen the Olympics was on TV,” Flav mentioned about his new position. “You realize what I’m saying? However I at all times wished to see what it felt like being there.”
Flav obtained on board with the water polo crew in Might when crew captain Maggie Steffens put out a name for monetary assist. The hip-hop icon responded, writing: “As a woman dad and supporter of all girls’s sports activities – imma personally sponsor you my woman, no matter you want. And imma sponsor the entire crew.”
He then signed a five-year sponsorship take care of the US girls’s and males’s water polo groups, vowing to “elevate the visibility and pleasure surrounding water polo in america”.
He was then additionally honoured together with his personal Olympics-themed Funko POP! doll.
The hip-hop legend’s involvement with the US Olympics crew is being celebrated with the limited-edition merchandise that may solely be accessible till August 16.
Named ‘POP: Staff USA USAWP Taste Flav’, orders could be positioned this week, with transport estimated in December. Every sale will embrace a donation to Staff USA’s Water Polo fund. You should purchase yours here.
He turns into the most recent music determine to obtain the honour, following on from the likes of Ice Spice, The Remedy, Slipknot, Liam and Noel Gallagher, The White Stripes, Metallica, Publish Malone and the late Eddie Van Halen.
Flav’s eclectic 2024 has already seen him out himself as a Swiftie, announce a brand new actuality present the place he’ll earn his highschool diploma, and order a whole crimson lobster menu to avoid wasting a seafood restaurant.