"USA gonna Fight The Powers that be" Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav has revealed the custom bronze clock he’s had made for Olympic gymnast, Jordan Chiles, this week (August 12). The gymnast was ordered to return a bronze medal that she won at the Paris Olympics by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Chiles competed in the individual floor exercise at the Olympics and was awarded a bronze medal after an initial appeal from her coach altered her score.
However, after this, the Romanian Gymnastics Federation filed an appeal of their own that reversed the decision after it was ruled that Chiles’ coach made her appeal just four seconds too late. The IOC then subsequently announced on August 11 that the bronze medal had been reallocated to Romanian gymnast Ana Bărbosu. The USA Gymnastics team has since challenged the ruling with video evidence of Chiles’ coach appealing the decision in time and has said it aims to “pursue every possible avenue and appeal process, including to the Swiss Federal Tribunal” (as per Consequence ).
When news of this emerged, Flav promised to make a custom bronze clock necklace for Chiles after the decision. Now, Flav has posted an image of the jewellery on his Instagram page . “USA gonna Fight The Powers that be,” he wrote in the caption.
He added: “but in the meantime between time, I gots yo back @jordanchiles Hit me up.” While Chiles is not on social media currently following news of the decision, her mother Gina posted on her .