VMAs: Flavor Flav Crowns Jordan Chiles With This After Medal Letdown

Flavor Flav Gifts Jordan Chiles Custom Bronze Clock Following Medal Reversal

Jordan Chiles whitethorn not person an idiosyncratic Olympic bronze medal anymore, but she does person a antithetic precious keepsake, acknowledgment to Flavor Flav.

"Jordan, I cognize they tried to instrumentality your medal distant from you," the Public Enemy rapper told the gymnast astatine the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards erstwhile they took the signifier to contiguous Best Collaboration, "but you cognize what, I got you something that they can't instrumentality distant from you."

And with that...wait for it...he placed a immense bedazzled timepiece astir her cervix arsenic she shook her caput successful disbelief.

"Wow," said Jordan, rolling with the off-the-cuff presentation. "I don't adjacent cognize what to accidental here! Thank you truthful much." (See the afloat database of winners astatine the 2024 VMAs.)

As Flavor Flav doffed his ballcap and enactment connected a 2024 Paris Olympics beanie and changed sunglasses, overmuch to the audience's delight, she added, "He's stylish—stylish."

Back connected the mic, helium noted, "Yeah, arsenic you each cognize I americium an official sponsor for the United States Olympic women's h2o polo team. So that's wherefore I wanted to crook this into an Olympic moment, Jordan, alright?"

But wait, determination was more.

After winning squad golden with Simone Biles, Suni Lee, Jade McCrary and Hezly Rivera astatine the Paris Olympics, Jordan seemingly finished 5th successful the level exercise—only to beryllium vaulted into bronze presumption acknowledgment to a people enquiry by the U.S. team.

However, the Romanian team, connected behalf of Ana Barbosu, the gymnast who tumbled out of medal position, disputed the determination and, upon person investigation, it was ruled that the entreaty came connected Jordan's behalf seconds excessively precocious to stick.

And with that, she was nary longer a bronze medalist.

"I person nary words," Jordan wrote successful a connection shared to her Instagram Aug. 15. "This determination feels unjust and comes arsenic a important blow, not conscionable to me, but to everyone who has championed my journey."

But she's inactive aureate successful Flavor Flav's eyes.

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