Then renounce your citizenship and go to somalia.
She should NEVER REPRESENT the USA....EVER! She should be kicked off the USA TEAM! She said that the flag has NEVER meant anything to her.!!
Another sporting event I probably won’t watch.
And what was with the clown makeup?
I almost hate to ask but what did she do?
First time 99% of Americans ever heard of some sport called hammer throwing and it’s because of some ingrate BLM SJW clown ruining the show.
Hope 'it' loses to a real 'oppressed' person......................
The hammer was misused upon this woman. It should be used for something else.
I was under the impression that the country's anthem was only played for contestants who won first-place. Why was our national anthem being played for her third-place finish?
Saw her play a sentient human on tv.
Cannot.
Unsee.
She may be good at throwing hammers but her brain is mush from leftist Wokeism victim mentality. That’s her real oppression.
I had not paid attention to Gwen Berry.
I thought she was the winner and now I find she is only a third rate actor.
I think it’s supposed to speak to you. Still, you’re free to speak your mind, such as it is.
That line about how the rest of the world will react to her “oppression” is solid gold.
I sincerely hope she gets to visit with folks from different countries while she is there. Especially those from West Africa. I sincerely hope she gets to speak with someone from Niger, Ghana, Liberia or Sierra Leone. I have a feeling she’ll walk away from those conversations with a new view of her homeland. Be even better if she could go visit those countries. After hearing, “please take me with you to America” two or three hundred times a day, maybe she’ll shape up.
Ungrateful childish fat arse she is. Hammer throwing ? Whoop tee do.
So sad, she stole the victory from the first and second place winners and made it about her. Bet very few people know their names.
virtue signaling is hard.
The USA Track & Field Foundation announced shortly after the incident in question that it will pay grants to 100 elite American athletes. Gwen Berry wasn’t one of them.
The USATF Foundation, Berry said, has essentially punished her for protesting “extreme injustice” after winning gold at the Pan-American Games last summer.
“I know for sure that I wasn’t chosen [for a grant] because of my stance on the podium,” Berry told Yahoo Sports on Wednesday. “Because I was told that.”
USA’s(?) Gwen Berry competed in the Women’s Hammer Throw final at the 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Khalifa International stadium in Doha on September 28, 2019. The USA Track & Field Foundation announced shortly after that it would pay grants to 100 elite American athletes. Gwen Berry, an Olympic hammer thrower, wasn’t one of them. And she has decided, after keeping quiet for almost a year, that she no longer can.
The USATF Foundation, Berry says, has essentially punished her for protesting “extreme injustice” after winning gold at the Pan-American Games last summer.
“I know for sure that I wasn’t chosen [for a grant] because of my stance on the podium,” Berry told Yahoo Sports on Wednesday. “Because I was told that.”
Last August, Berry raised her fist during a Pan-Ams medal ceremony. A USATF Foundation official, she says, called her a couple days later, “and told me I better not do it again, or else I’ll lose funding.”
Around that same time, the Foundation released lists of 2019 grant recipients. The previous year, Berry had received $35,000, as one of 25 U.S. track and field stars in the top tier. In 2019, days after winning gold, she no longer was in that top tier. She was among a second tier of grantees, each of whom received $4,000. Berry also lost sponsors.
When athletes reach the elite stages in international competition, with government funded training facilities, equipment, and stipend, then it is no longer a athletic event as much as a business. And since it has reached beyond the actual events themselves, and stepped into political and personal preferences, then the athletes are a salaried employee of their income and there is an expectation of behavior in that representation. There is nothing in the rules for her event that entertain her person preferences for free speech. Especially against the hand that feeds her.
She can have all the opinions she wants. But as long as she is representing the country, and in this case, private funding companies. she should keep them to herself. But the USATF did make an effort to settle.
The USATF Foundation, which is an independent organization unaffiliated with USA Track & Field, the sport’s national governing body, said in a statement that “Gwen’s allegation that her stance on the podium at the Pan Am Games adversely affected our grant-making decisions in 2020 is inaccurate.” It said that it had offered Berry a separate $5,000 grant, but that Berry had declined.
“It’s not about aggregate levels of support,” Berry said in a tweet. “It’s about hypocrisy.” What she fails to see here is it actually is about an aggregate level of support. And she found that out. Hope more are educated when they try to use a non-existent podium they have neither the full information about or even use the information they have to prosper their agenda. Well the people that control the purse strings have an opinion as well. She can have all the opinions she wants...at her expense if it doesn’t match those of her employers. And I’m a firm believer that our government should follow suit for this. If these athletes are not going to represent their employers as expected, and use their position for personal opinions during that employment, then un-employ them. That’s what the real world is. Step into it.
wy69
attention seeking narcissist will do ANYTHING for attention. Vile creature.
Poor loser blackBERRY, tricked into listening to the National Anthem.