Hammer thrower Gwen Berry turns away from flag while anthem plays at [Olympic] trials

[Hoodat]

Hammer thrower Gwen Berry turns away from flag while anthem plays at trials: 'I feel like it was a setup'

ESPN News Services   |   10:09 PM ET

EUGENE, Ore. -- For the past week, the national anthem has played one time per evening at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials. On Saturday, the song happened to start while outspoken activist Gwen Berry was standing on the podium after receiving her bronze medal in the hammer throw.

While the music played, Berry placed her left hand on her hip and fidgeted. She took a quarter turn, so she was facing the stands, not the flag. Toward the end, she plucked up her black T-shirt with the words "Activist Athlete" emblazoned on the front, and draped it over her head.

"I feel like it was a setup, and they did it on purpose,'' Berry said of the timing of the anthem. "I was pissed, to be honest.''

Berry's reaction to the "Star-Spangled Banner'' was as notable as anything on the track on a blazing-hot Saturday, the second-to-last day at U.S. Olympic trials. With temperatures reaching 101 degrees (38 Celsius) on the field, DeAnna Price won the event with a throw of 263 feet, 6 inches (80.31 meters), which was nearly 7 feet longer than Berry's throw. Price broke the meet record on four of her six throws, and the last two of those throws also broke the American record.

Second place belonged to Brooke Andersen, while Berry grabbed the third spot by a scant 2 inches over Janee Kassanavoid. Berry, heading to her second Olympics, has promised to use her position in Tokyo to keep raising awareness about social injustices in her home country.



https://www.espn.com/olympics/trackandfield/story/_/id/31715788/hammer-thrower-gwen-berry-turns-away-flag-anthem-plays-us-track-field-trials


They should replace her with the 4th place finisher.  A two-inch advantage isn't worth tolerating this headache.  If she hates America so much, then maybe she should find a different country to sponsor her for her own personal political platform.

[Wingnut]

3rd place is still last place for this loser.

[goatprairie]

Planes, boats leave every day. Swimming/walking is also an option. No chains around Ms. Berry....she can leave any time to escape this racist hellhole.

[Lando Lincoln]

The irony is she chooses hate.

[Wingnut]

She ought to have that "ass tumor" looked at.  Look as cancerous as her hate.

[mystery-ak]

Planes, boats leave every day. Swimming/walking is also an option. No chains around Ms. Berry....she can leave any time to escape this racist hellhole.

Exactly...hopefully she won't make the podium in Tokyo..

[mystery-ak]

‘Not important’: Athlete turns away from US flag during Olympic trials national anthem

she has a history of disrespecting the country that has allowed her to pursue this sport

https://twitter.com/nzaccardi/status/1160354438789382144

[skeeter]

Don't we have any say in who represents us at the Olympics?

'Cause I sure as hell don't want this thing representing my nation.

[mystery-ak]

US Olympian Turns Away From Flag, Covers Her Head With T-Shirt During National Anthem

[catfish1957]

Is there such thing as an equipment malfunction or accident in the Hammer Throw?  One can hope....

Nothing dangerous, maybe just a thrown Hammy that will keep her home.

[rustynail]

If I had a hammer...

[GtHawk]

This hateful bitch and any others, male, female or mentally ill that disrespect the American flag and nation should not be allowed to compete for America. Let these, I can't write what I think, #*$!##@'s find some other country they are proud of and beg them to allow her to compete under their flag. In her case might I suggest she contact one of the nations on the African continent so that she won't be bothered by her perceptions of unfairness and hatred of Whites history of slavery.

Of course she may have to come to grips with the history of slavery and slave trading by people of her color on the African continent and probably be the target of derision and hostility by true Africans.

[mystery-ak]

Fox News’s Tyrus confronts spoiled brat Olympian: Why are you even competing if you hate America?
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/06/28/fox-newss-tyrus-confronts-spoiled-brat-olympian-why-are-you-even-competing-if-you-hate-america-1095559/

[mystery-ak]

White House Defends Right to Protest After U.S. Olympian Turns Back to American Flag

Charlie Spiering 28 Jun 2021

The White House defended the right of professional athletes to “peacefully protest” after an Olympic hammer thrower turned her back on the American flag at an award ceremony.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said she had not spoken specifically to President Joe Biden about the incident, but expressed broad support for protests during the national anthem.

Biden, Psaki said, is “incredibly proud” to be an American and has “great respect” for the national anthem.

“He would also say, of course, that part of that pride in our country means recognizing there are moments when we as a country haven’t lived up to our highest ideals,” she continued. “And it means respecting the right of people granted to them in the Constitution to peacefully protest.”

Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry turned her back to the flag at an award ceremony during the Olympic trials in Oregon on Saturday.

Berry, who won third place in the match, raised a black T-shirt with the words “Activist Athlete” printed on it and draped it over her head during the anthem.

more
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/28/white-house-defends-right-protest-after-u-s-olympian-turns-back-american-flag/

[mystery-ak]

WATCH: Dan Crenshaw Calls for Gwen Berry to Be Removed from Olympic Team Over Anthem Protests

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1409502569420967937

[DCPatriot]

Can't help remembering that rodeo clown who had the temerity to don an Obama facemask.

Then there's the sudden death of a popular Obama Impersonator.

[Cyber Liberty]

Fox News’s Tyrus confronts spoiled brat Olympian: Why are you even competing if you hate America?
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/06/28/fox-newss-tyrus-confronts-spoiled-brat-olympian-why-are-you-even-competing-if-you-hate-america-1095559/

I like Tyrus a lot, and I saw this exchange.

[goatprairie]

Tyrus condemns Berry but says it was alright for Smith and Carlos to raise fists at the '68 Olympics.
I was quite happy to see those two jerks bounced off the Olympic team. They just raised the racial antagonism further with the idiotic fist salute. Then as now blacks created 99% of their problems.
I like Tyrus overall, but sometimes he says some pretty stupid things.

[Wingnut]

Here is the deal, Remember this should have been about the record throw the 1st place winner made. But noooooo, This self-absorbed racist bitch made this about herself. The skank ass twatwaffle should be gone.     

[Free Vulcan]

Unfortunately, she's on the world stage in a foreign country where this is no George Floyd, Derek Chauvin, or anything else American for that matter.

That's why she's there -  to represent America. She has zero right to protest, and there is zero room for racialist activism.

Then she decides that her views, race, morality, and cause override all that, and we are to bow at her feet.

She is not an activist, she is a black supremacist and separatist.

[240B]

Fox News’s Tyrus confronts spoiled brat Olympian: Why are you even competing if you hate America?

Why represent the U.S. Army if you believe America is an irredeemable racist illegitimate country?
They do it for power. Their opinion of themselves is nothing without the ability to 'force' that opinion on others.

[catfish1957]

What a bitch.  She lost to the winner by over 7 feet, and beat the 4th place contestant by 2 inches.  Making the freakin' olympics by 2 inches. 

What I like though is the New Record Holding Winner Deanna Price has a wonderful grin on her face, and was holding a flag.  Sadly her triumphic moment was sullied by more BLM Bullshit.

[Wingnut]

What a bitch.  She lost to the winner by over 7 feet, and beat the 4th place contestant by 2 inches.  Making the freakin' olympics by 2 inches. 

What I like though is the New Record Holding Winner Deanna Price has a wonderful grin on her face, and was holding a flag.  Sadly her triumphic moment was sullied by more BLM Bullshit.

 Deanna Price Winner!   I will watch the Hammer Throw now.  We all know the bullshit Networks will feature the BLM loser when they get to "Toyota" Japan

[Polly Ticks]

Unfortunately, she's on the world stage in a foreign country where this is no George Floyd, Derek Chauvin, or anything else American for that matter.

That's why she's there -  to represent America. She has zero right to protest, and there is zero room for racialist activism.

Then she decides that her views, race, morality, and cause override all that, and we are to bow at her feet.

She is not an activist, she is a black supremacist and separatist.

Not yet, she's not.  She was in Oregon for the Olympic trials trying to qualify to go to the Olympics. 
In other words, it's not too late to kick her off the team if anyone had enough spine to do it.  Too bad it won't happen.

[PeteS in CA]

Make her ticket to Tokyo one-way. Or maybe continuing to Guangzhou. She might, ummmmmm, experience what real racism is like.

[mystery-ak]

‘Y’all Are Obsessed With Me’: Gwen Berry, An Olympian Who Turned Away From The Flag During National Anthem, Responds To Criticism
https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/28/olympics-hammer-throwing-gwen-berry-flag-national-anthem-criticism/

[Cyber Liberty]

‘Y’all Are Obsessed With Me’: Gwen Berry, An Olympian Who Turned Away From The Flag During National Anthem, Responds To Criticism

It's the eyelashes.

[Wingnut]

It's the eyelashes.

I was thinking it was her ghettopotamus stance that enamored me to her.

[Free Vulcan]

‘Y’all Are Obsessed With Me’: Gwen Berry, An Olympian Who Turned Away From The Flag During National Anthem, Responds To Criticism
https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/28/olympics-hammer-throwing-gwen-berry-flag-national-anthem-criticism/

She's like that skimpy dressed girl who parades around for attention and then either 1) calls the guys who ogle her pigs because they ogled her, or 2) calls them gay because they don't ogle her, and wants to go somewhere where there are 'real men'.

Which completely dodges the fact that she was the one parading around in the first place.

[GtHawk]

‘Y’all Are Obsessed With Me’: Gwen Berry, An Olympian Who Turned Away From The Flag During National Anthem, Responds To Criticism
https://dailycaller.com/2021/06/28/olympics-hammer-throwing-gwen-berry-flag-national-anthem-criticism/

Nah Gwen, you're just full of yourself, which is to say you are full of 

[DCPatriot]

Nah Gwen, you're just full of yourself, which is to say you are full of 

@GtHawk

Gwen is looking to become another iconic figure...that's all.

[Smokin Joe]

Had she pulled that in a real communist and repressive country, she'd either be on her way to the Gulag or assuming room temperature by now. But she's so busy being protesty to get attention, she'll likely have to have her head removed surgically from where she's been keeping it.

[mountaineer]

https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1409714656952733696

[Lando Lincoln]

https://twitter.com/RyanGirdusky/status/1409714656952733696

Yes.   

[mountaineer]

Steve Deace
@SteveDeaceShow
My colleagues, you’re giving Gwen Berry what she wants. She did this for the smoke from folks like us. She’s trying to follow Kaepernick model to endless wealth. A pretty good, but not great, athlete “transitions” to eternal woke warrior for those post-prime earning years.
7:51 AM · Jun 30, 2021·

[goatprairie]

Steve Deace
@SteveDeaceShow
My colleagues, you’re giving Gwen Berry what she wants. She did this for the smoke from folks like us. She’s trying to follow Kaepernick model to endless wealth. A pretty good, but not great, athlete “transitions” to eternal woke warrior for those post-prime earning years.
7:51 AM · Jun 30, 2021·

Yes, now she will be feted and lionized especially by white libs who can't virtue signal enough about how much they love (angry) black people and other minorities....except for east Asians.

[Cyber Liberty]

Steve Deace
@SteveDeaceShow
My colleagues, you’re giving Gwen Berry what she wants. She did this for the smoke from folks like us. She’s trying to follow Kaepernick model to endless wealth. A pretty good, but not great, athlete “transitions” to eternal woke warrior for those post-prime earning years.
7:51 AM · Jun 30, 2021·

I'm not sure that's going to happen.  Kapernutz was a QB in a highly popular sport, Football.  Her claim to fame is throwing hammers and having really hideous eyelashes.  And an azz the size of Montana.

[Wingnut]

I'm not sure that's going to happen.  Kapernutz was a QB in a highly popular sport, Football.  Her claim to fame is throwing hammers and having really hideous eyelashes.  And an azz the size of Montana.

It is big enough to start raising up a crop of dental floss.
Waxing it up ....

[Cyber Liberty]

It is big enough to start raising up a crop of dental floss.
Waxing it up ....

Raising it up, waxing it down, in a little white box I can sell uptown...

By myself I won't have no boss, just me and my lonely..dental floss.

[mountaineer]

https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1410226088945594375


Funny. She used to be a Nike athlete, but they dropped her. The two much better throwers have Nike contracts. Puma, as part of its we're-woke initiative, recently signed Gwen. I'm sure they're happy now.

[mystery-ak]

Gwen Berry Sponsored by Puma, Key Defund the Police Group

Warner Todd Huston 30 Jun 2021

The U.S. Olympic hammer thrower who turned her back during the national anthem last weekend is sponsored by sportswear maker Puma and a key defund the police group called Color of Change.

Indeed, the far-left group was instrumental in securing Puma’s sponsorship for Olympic competitor Gen Berry, Fox News reported.

Color of Change is a stark supporter of defunding American police departments, Fox said.

“Policing is a violent institution that must end. We imagine a country where there is enough money to educate our children, care for our sick and feed those who are financially unstable. Defunding the police allows for this vision,” Color of Change President Rashad Robinson said in June, the cable news network noted.

Color of Change has also pushed a growing number of active petitions to have the budgets of various police departments slashed.

The Washington Post added that Color Of Change appealed to Puma on Berry’s behalf and struck a deal for Puma to give Berry a deal.

https://twitter.com/MzBerryThrows/status/1406982497783668737

more
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2021/06/30/gwen-berry-sponsored-puma-key-defund-police-group/

[Wingnut]

Puma is so MySpace.

[Smokin Joe]

Policing is a violent institution that must end. We imagine a country where there is enough money to educate our children, care for our sick and feed those who are financially unstable. Defunding the police allows for this vision,” Color of Change President Rashad Robinson said in June, the cable news network noted.

Wasn't that the reason NASA was supposed to back off the space program, to 'take care of the problems right here at home'.


Typically, you subsidize something, you get more of it.
Instead of colonies on the moon or Mars, we end up with urban sh*tholes full of feral people.