Jordan Chiles could not have the Olympic bronze title, however she does have the help of her followers, together with Taste Flav. On Wednesday night time in the course of the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, the rapper, who’s identified for his exaggerated clock chains, shocked Chiles together with her personal bedazzled bronze clock chain.
“I simply need to flip this into just a little Olympic second for a second, in case you don’t thoughts,” Flav stated onstage as the 2 ready to current the award for Greatest Collaboration. “I do know they tried to take your medal away. However you recognize what? I obtained you one thing that they will’t take away from you.”
Speechless by the rapper’s beneficiant gesture, Chiles was additional shocked when Taste Flav revealed that he would even be gifting her the prize cash she would have obtained with the Olympic title.
This summer time, the Workforce USA gymnast captivated viewers together with her charisma and expertise on the 2024 Paris Olympics. Nevertheless, Chiles took a “important blow” when Workforce Romania contested her bronze medal win, arguing that it needs to be awarded to her competitor, Ana Barbosu. With the committee in the end granting the attraction, Chiles was pressured to return the medal because the Olympic title was reallocated to Barbosu.
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Past the choice feeling “unjust,” Chiles says “the unprompted racially pushed assaults on social media” that adopted the scenario have been particularly heartbreaking. In her first interview because the attraction determination, the Workforce USA gymnast opened up about how the scenario made her really feel.
“The largest factor that was taken from me was that it was the popularity of who I used to be. Not simply my sport however the individual I’m. To me, every thing that has gone on just isn’t in regards to the medal, it’s about my pores and skin colour,” she stated in the course of the Forbes Energy Ladies’s Summit. “I felt like after I was again in 2018 the place I did lose the love of the game, I misplaced it once more. I felt like I used to be actually left at the hours of darkness.”
Regardless of an outpouring of help on social media, Chiles admitted it was initially “actually laborious to really see all of the love and help” as she navigated her feelings in regards to the committee’s determination.
“I can really feel it now, however at first it was actually laborious to essentially take that in due to how badly my coronary heart was damaged,” Chiles defined. “Every thing did go so rapidly. However I do admire each single individual that has been in a position to come out and say what they wanted to say, whether or not it was via social media…via information shops…[or] simply individuals texting me. I do admire it a lot and I don’t assume I might be the place I’m proper now sitting up right here speaking to everyone. If it wasn’t for everybody being proper by my facet and actually recognizing what the appropriate factor is.”
