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Gwen Berry, hammer thrower who turned away from US flag, fails to medal at Olympics (11th Out of 12)
NY Post ^ | August 3, 2021 | Jared Greenspan

Posted on 08/03/2021 8:16:50 AM PDT by KevinB

Gwen Berry failed to medal during the women’s hammer throw finals on Tuesday. Berry finished in eleventh place out of twelve competitors, registering a distance of 71.35 meters.

The 32-year-old caused a stir during the medal ceremony at the Olympic trials in June. After winning a bronze medal during the event, Berry faced the stands rather than the American flag, holding up a shirt that read “Activist Athlete.”

Afterward, Berry said she was “pissed” that “The Star-Spangled Banner” played during the celebration.

“If you know your history, you know the full song of the national anthem,” Berry said on Black News Channel. “The third paragraph speaks to slaves in America — our blood being slain … all over the floor.”

In July, before the Olympics commenced, Berry pledged to “represent the oppressed people” should she win a medal in Tokyo, adding, “that’s been my message for the last three years.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: StAnDeliver

Concentrate on the war hammer, Gwen,

not the war “drobe”.


41 posted on 08/03/2021 8:49:57 AM PDT by fishtank
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To: KevinB

Hammered


42 posted on 08/03/2021 8:51:15 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: KevinB

They hate America, and yet they refuse to move to socialist race-equitable paradises like Cuba or Venezuela or china where they’ be much happier. Weird.


43 posted on 08/03/2021 8:51:34 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: KevinB

Let me be real for a second. Besides the obvious schadenfreude angle here - who really gives two craps about womens hammer throw. I mean - really?


44 posted on 08/03/2021 8:52:01 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: StAnDeliver

Oh my god!!!is that her....it.😬


45 posted on 08/03/2021 8:53:53 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: KevinB

If I had a hammer . . . sing along everyone!


46 posted on 08/03/2021 8:55:36 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business )
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To: KevinB

The construction trades are short of carpenters; maybe there’s a career opportunity there.

More good news out of Japan.


47 posted on 08/03/2021 8:57:08 AM PDT by Skybird
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To: KevinB

48 posted on 08/03/2021 9:10:19 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: KevinB

Moving to the dustbin of history, obscurity so richly deserved; gwen berry, hammer thrower.


49 posted on 08/03/2021 9:20:51 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict at Large)
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To: silverleaf

It’s not ‘history’ that she doesn’t know - it’s “How to Read”.

The lyrics and their references in that third verse are clearly speaking of the invading forces.

Or, more likely, she’s just parroting some marxist drivel she saw somewhere.


50 posted on 08/03/2021 9:23:40 AM PDT by larrytown (No matter how much the cats fight there always seems to be plenty of kittens. - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: KevinB

Top US 1500 runner is in trouble for not taking the Vax even though he had Covid. This could get interesting.


51 posted on 08/03/2021 9:27:19 AM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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To: StAnDeliver

Her makeup is straight out of a grade B horror movie with a budget of $500.


52 posted on 08/03/2021 9:27:24 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: KevinB

Top US thrower, Deanna Price, was over 5 meters short of the winning toss, and placed 8th.

Berry was over 7 meters short, and finished next to last out of 12 throwers. At least she can star in the next internet video of an angry woman tossing a table across a room.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=angry+black+woman+throws+table+across+room&docid=608032906697977017&mid=F65B8DB085FE023411F0F65B8DB085FE023411F0&view=detail&FORM=VIRE


53 posted on 08/03/2021 9:28:58 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: Billthedrill

👍 was thinking the same thing.


54 posted on 08/03/2021 9:36:38 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: ridesthemiles

I’m just as glad she’s spit on representing our country....it’s always a good thing when they out themselves as traitors.


55 posted on 08/03/2021 9:39:05 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: Skywise

Maybe if she was in the “throw away the US flag” event rather than the hammer throw she would have earned a medal.


56 posted on 08/03/2021 9:40:45 AM PDT by JGPhila
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To: caww

They rarely can fake it until they make it.


57 posted on 08/03/2021 9:41:04 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: unixfox

She was in last until the third round and then the Italian hammer thrower had a bad throw so she ended up 11/12; the other two Americans were well ahead of her, so she is a bottom feeder in every respect of the term. Ha, ha, ha!


58 posted on 08/03/2021 9:44:05 AM PDT by laconic
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To: KevinB

All my life,as soon I knew what the Olympics were about...I tuned in rooting for the good old beloved USA. No more...I have not watched one second of this young American scum & vermin running wild brandishing their hated of their home country. I blame all of them, everyone of them for standing down and letting these malcontents as mouth our great country!!!

African_Americans have had their tough times in America, “The Great Melting Pot that is America”...but, so have the Irish, the Germans, the Italians, The Japanese, The Chinese, the Koreans, The Native Indians, The Indians from India, The Vietnamese....& on and on and on!!! Yet none of these folks complain...they love and honor this great country and so do millions of American African-Americans!!!

I will honor our Olympics players when the honor their country. As for African-Americans...they had eight years of Obama and he did nothing for any of them...but he took darn good care of himself. Trump was the man...but, sadly these badly informed Americans, do not have a clue!!!


59 posted on 08/03/2021 9:47:31 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
African_Americans have had their tough times in America,

Even Muhammad Ali said, 'Thank God my Granddaddy got on that boat!'

60 posted on 08/03/2021 9:48:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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