Taste Flav shocked Olympian Jordan Chiles with a touching gesture on the 2024 MTV Music Video Awards.
Whereas onstage with Chiles to current the award for greatest collaboration, which went to Taylor Swift and Publish Malone for “Fortnight,” the rapper addressed the controversial choice that triggered the gymnast to have her bronze medal revoked. “I simply need to flip this into somewhat Olympic second for a second, in case you don’t thoughts,” Flav introduced.
Turning to Chiles, he added, “I do know they tried to take your medal away. However you understand what? I bought you one thing that they will’t take away from you.” The gang cheered as Flav introduced Chiles together with her very personal blinged-out bronze clock, comparable in type to his signature accent. After the rapper completed tying it across the athlete’s neck, an emotional Chiles remarked, “Wow, I don’t even know what to say right here!”
Chiles’ mother, Gina, tweeted in assist of Flav’s reward. She wrote, “My child @ChilesJordan resides it up on the @vmas! You probably did so good presenting with @FlavorFlav and the bronze clock. Now you’re dancing with @taylorswift13 and looking out attractive!! That smile says all of it! So soooo so pleased for you.”
The athlete was initially awarded a bronze medal on the Paris Olympics after her coach, Cecile Landi, made an attraction through the Aug. 5 ground train ultimate. Nevertheless, the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport in the end dominated that the U.S. workforce made its attraction 4 seconds after the one-minute deadline. This meant that the bronze medal must be returned and handed as a substitute to Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu.
Following CAS’ choice, Chiles took to social media to share her response. “I’ve no phrases,” she wrote in a press release. “This choice feels unjust and comes as a big blow, not simply to me, however to everybody who has championed my journey. So as to add to the heartbreak, the unprompted racially pushed assaults on social media are incorrect and intensely hurtful. I’ve poured my coronary heart and soul into this sport and I’m so proud to characterize my tradition and my nation.”
Taste Flav, who was an outspoken supporter of the athletes on the 2024 Paris Olympics, had previously teased on X (formerly Twitter) that he was going to make a “bronze clock necklace” for the athlete.
