Gwen Berry suffers humiliating loss at Olympics after insulting personal flag

American Olympian Gwen Berry, who turned her again on the American flag in the course of the Olympics trial in June and had raised her fist within the air twice as a mark of protest earlier than getting into the hammer throw finals on Tuesday, ended up within the eleventh place out of twelve rivals, registering a distance of 71.35 meters.
But the humiliating defeat didn’t deter her from explaining why she had raised her fist in protest.
“It was the same thing: social injustice, racial injustice,” the athlete later defined to the media. “I’m just here to represent. I know a lot of people like me, a lot of athletes like me, a lot of people are scared to succeed, a lot of people are scared to speak out. So as long as I can represent those people, I’m fine.”
The gesture of protest got here after the 32-year-old Olympian, in her post-qualifier interview on Saturday, stated that ought to she win a medal in her occasion on Tuesday, she would make a politically charged assertion from the rostrum.
Prominent Americans and social media customers specific glee at Berry’s humiliating present on the Olympics
Nevertheless, a raft of Americans on Twitter, together with notable personalities, couldn’t disguise their glee on the mortifying defeat of Gwen Berry on the Tokyo Olympics. Several of them commented that those that don’t respect their nation or insult their flag deserved to lose on the Olympics.
Actress Alana Stewart stated if athletes who knelt or turned their backs would have revered the flag and their nation, they’d have probably carried out higher and gotten the help of the American public.
Perhaps if #GwenBerry, #MeganRapinoe, and the opposite athletes who knelt or turned their backs would have revered their flag and nation, they’d have carried out higher. If athletes aren’t happy with their nation, then their nation isn’t going to root for them. #Olympics— Alana Stewart (@AlanaOkStewart) August 4, 2021
American commentator Sean Hannity additionally expressed pleasure after Gwen Berry ended up at eleventh place within the hammer throw competitors. “Another Olympic athlete who clearly doesn’t seem to love the country she’s representing fell flat in the Olympics,” Hannity sharply remarked.
Sean Hannity celebrates American Gwen Berry being defeated on the Olympicshttps://t.co/utz4m4Jd22— Media Matters (@mmfa) August 4, 2021
Brigitte Gabriel, the founding father of ACT For America, a grassroots motion aimed toward preserving America’s tradition, sovereignty and safety, commented that Berry failed to complete within the high 10 in hammer throwing.
Gwen Berry didn’t even end within the high 10…in HAMMER THROWING.— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) August 3, 2021
Republican candidate Lavern Spicer stated Berry’s loss is one other victory for America.
Gwen Berry’s loss is one other victory for America!🇺🇸 https://t.co/4P4kSOsRRv— Lavern Spicer (@lavern_spicer) August 3, 2021
Others too joined in expressing their pleasure at Berry’s defeat.
Gwen Berry doesn’t medal in any respect, ending eleventh of 12 in finals, and the ladies’s soccer staff is bounced right down to Bronze medal sport. I’m having a fantastic week 🇺🇸— GetOffMyLawn.357 (@JusticeAngel777) August 3, 2021
Newsome being recalled, Cuomo resigning, Women’s soccer flopped, Gwen Berry positioned eleventh, anymore excellent news I missed?— S Graham. (@georgiapeach904) August 3, 2021
This was not the primary time Americans have been joyful that one American athlete misplaced on the Olympics. Earlier, many Americans had celebrated when their ladies’s soccer staff had misplaced to Canada. The residents stated that the soccer staff has embraced the ‘woke’ ideology and subsequently, deserved to lose. The celebration of the defeat of personal athletes on the Tokyo Olympics by Americans themselves reveals the extent to which American society has grow to be polarised.
Past antecedents of American Olympian Gwen Berry
Berry will not be new to pulling off stunts. She presumes herself to be an activist of types, together with her stunts giving expression to her protest in opposition to the supposed maladies afflicting American society.
Earlier in June, the hammer thrower had brought about a stir in the course of the medal ceremony on the Olympics trial. After the athlete gained a bronze medal, she turned again on the American flag and held up a shirt that learn “Activist Athlete”.
Later on, she was so infuriated that “The Star-Spangled Banner” was performed in the course of the celebration.
“If you know your history, you know the full song of the national anthem,” Berry stated in an interview afterwards. “The third paragraph speaks to slaves in America — our blood being slain … all over the floor.”
In July, earlier than the Olympics commenced, Berry vowed to “represent the oppressed people” on the podium ought to she win a medal in Tokyo, including, “that’s been my message for the last three years”.
Berry first got here underneath the firing line of her critics two years in the past when she raised her fist in protest protested after she medaled on the Pan American Games.