Gwen Berry, a Team USA hopeful, disgraced the American flag on Saturday during tryouts for the US Olympic Track and Field team.
After placing third in the Hammer throw event, thus qualifying her for a spot on the US Olympic team, Berry turned away from the American flag while the National Anthem was playing.
As The Daily Wire reports:
At the U.S. Olympic track and field trials on Saturday, hammer thrower Gwen Berry turned away from the American flag as the National Anthem played.
Berry placed third in the hammer throw on Saturday, qualifying her for the Tokyo Olympics. As the National Anthem began to play with the winners standing on the podium, Berry turned away from the flag so that she was facing the stands. Toward the end of the anthem, she pulled up a black t-shirt with the words “Activist Athlete” on the front to cover her head.
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“I feel like it was setup,” Berry said with a burst of laughter. “I feel like they did that on purpose, and I was pissed, to be honest. I was thinking about what should I do. Eventually, I just stayed there and just swayed. I put my shirt over my head. It was real disrespectful. I know they did that on purpose, but it’ll be all right. I see what’s up.”
Don’t set me up and think I won’t jump ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 https://t.co/IHXAbm3GBH
— Gwen Berry (@MzBerryThrows) June 27, 2021
“It was funny because they said they were going to play it before we walked out,” Berry said according to The Washington Post. “It just happened they played it when we were out there. So, you know, it’s okay. I really don’t want to talk about the anthem because that’s not important. The anthem don’t speak for me. It never has.”
Is this just the tip of the iceberg of what Americans can expect from its Olympic team this year as it competes in Tokyo this summer? Let us know what you think in the comments below.
If it doesn’t speak for you then maybe you should go find a country that meets your needs because we don’t need you here!
She needs to find another country or be barred from the Olympics if thats the way she feels about her America. Other country’s people have more respect for their country then these infadels in America.
Reprehensible behavior. If the US disgusts you, go compete & live in another country.
She want do that because another country would not put up with her “BS”. A total disgrace.
Exactly! And she couldn’t get Welfare or Foodstamps!
There aren’t many “Help Wanted: Hammer Thrower” signs out here. Maybe she should consider her future with her brain, if possible. Maybe some day, if she thinks really hard, she may find that she is not the center of the universe.
This is a great virtue for those participating in the BLM protest! Maybe she can find employment there.
That won’t happen! She is a narccist! She believes the world revolves around her!
She should not be allowed to represent the United States. What an absolute disgrace! This is why I will not be watching the olympics and why I stopped watching professional sports years ago. Nothing but whiny, over-privileged trash who have never done anything important in their lives, just playing a game for money.
Amen
You nailed it.
have you noticed it is almost always Black people who exhibit hate for this country,dispite the country bending over backward to give Blacks extra opportunity
The Committee should not allow this person to be on the American team. The team represents the country and if she doesn’t respect it she does not belong on team USA.
Totally agree with you. She should not be allowed to compete if she can’t honor the country she’s competing for!
You are correct! And I don’t care if we lose because we would send the 2nd best. You are representing ALL of the USA, not just yourself!!
What a POS, if u don’t like it here in the Americaa, move the hell out to china,iran,russia,nk, we don’t any more American hating jackasses,like u.
Absolutely disgraceful!!
Like I said on another thread, kick her off the team. If she doesn’t like our anthem or flag then send her to another country.
Absolutely! If any of these athletes threaten to do anything but stand there and respect the flag, they should be kicked off the team. And, anyone pulling any stunts at the Games should be banished from ever competing for Team USA.
If you are NOT proud of the Country that sends you to these events, maybe you should NOT GO In fact just go away. These events are NOT about you, they are about the Country you represent, yes it is that simple.
I think anyone who can’t respect The United States of America, it’s flag, anthem, etc. should not represent The United States of America any where and in an way.
I blame the USA Olympic union, if a player in any of our sports is going to compete and have a hatred for our flag and country they should not be allowed to compete. Let them move to a country they feel represents them better and compete for them. It is time to stop babysitting these people who hate America and give them a one-way ticket to another country.
Yes, it is a high honor to represent a nation ; whether as an Olympic athlete, or otherwise. Any individual who dishonors our nation should not be honored with being sponsored on our nation’s Olympic team. Do not send this person to the Olympic Games, on the United States of America’s Olympic Team !!! We do not “owe” such a person the opportunity of a platform on which to make a political protest against OUR nation !!!
Tom Streets
Disgraceful behavior! Maybe she needs to be reminded where her freedom comes from? Lack of respect for the country you represent should disqualify her from the team. Her own personal agenda should never be put above loyalty to her country. I thought America’s athletes should represent American values, not hatred.
Hope she losses
She has been taught incorrectly and incompletely and does not appreciate the tremendous progress the US has made in race relations, even since the 1950s. There is a white trans who is competing in the Olympic women’s cycling contests for the express reason that he intends to burn the American flag on the podium when he wins.
Another one who, by their words alone, should be kicked off the team, period.
That freak is another ricidulous jerk who needs to be banned and replaced! These 2 are narssists looking for attention! They think the world revolves around them! Gutter trash both of them!
No one is locked into our country, America Love it or Leave it and go where your hammer and sickle is more welcome you bunch of commies!
I’m not watching any of the games or any sports! a disgrace. they have never been thought anything about our history. How many of our people died to stand for freedom! they all need to be thrown out of our country and learn what it takes to be free.
you hit them in the pocketbook they will take another look at the path they are going down.
I am aghast at all the racist comments directed toward patriot Gwen Berry. Don’t you realize that the essence of Americanism is to protest the symbol of the country that gave you the opportunity to compete at Olympic level; that the reason for the Olympics is to feed the ego of the participants and pave the way for them to make money by endorsing breakfast cereals and sports gear? Come on, man! Sports has been proven to be the best and most acceptable vehicle to promote an oppressed minority’s politics, and you just want to put her down because she’s not white.
So,I guess, she pisses you off?
Sarcasm at its finest.
You are a rasist hypocrite crybaby! Black privilege!
Then get the hell out of our country and go to Iran, Russia, or China. In a matter of fact, she will not be representing my country if she makes it. And I hope she doesn’t make it!!!
I would drop her or any one that disrespects my country, this is the same as treason, firing squad.
So, she is more important than all the men and women who have fought and died to give her the freedom to act like a complete ass without being thrown into prison for such actions, as would happen in many other countries. Perhaps she should find one of those countries that would make her proud, if any, and go there, permanently. It’s a shame that she doesn’t appreciate what a good life she has, but then many people don’t, until they lose it.
she is a disgrace to our country, and shouldn’t be allowed at all to represent it either, this is how all this crap starts, by letting assholes like her and the other disrespect our flag and song, stop it now before its too late, what do you think if China or Russian ppl did this in their country??? I will not watch the Olympic either if they are going to be doing crap like this, get her off OUR TEAM
She disgusts me!!!
The flag was not disgraced by her actions//SHE was disgraced. Our flag stands tall against these piss ants.
As long as this black b.s. is in the olympics we will not be watching.Pure garbage.
No need to say after the last Olympic fiasco , I do not contribute as I previously did and I no longer watch or even care about Olympics!
Do not allow people like her to go and represent the United States. When they go to another country for a sporting event like that , they are showing other nations our best. Not what some one like her thinks. Get rid of her and all that are like her, NOW!!!!!!! GOD BLESS ALL THAT STAND FOR OUR TRUE AMERICA !! NOT THE FALSE AMERICA THE COMMUNIST ARE PUSHING. By the way I am part American Indian and a VETERAN.
What is she doing in the USA? I do not think she should go to Japan. Needs to find another country to represent.
She should unequivocally be pulled from the competition
Find a country that fit her standards I bet she support her own training and ect. Politics do not belong in sports just disgraceful. So many other athletes would be honored to represent American,this just a disguise to make money
Maybe the hammer slipped and hit her in the head,or she was just an IDIOT to start with, hope she doesn’t let the BORDER hit her in the Butt on the way out of the country
I wonder how she’d feel if she moved to a place like Malawi, or the Ivory Coast, or northern Nigeria…where slaughters of populations are a daily occurrence. Add things like amazing levels of corruption and bribery, zero sanitation, famines, tribal killings, necklacings, little education or health care…………let her go there. See how wonderful life is in a nation like that….rather than in the US which you hate so much.
Doesn’t make any difference if you’re green yellow black or white if you don’t love the United States of America then you don’t belong here or especially as one of our representatives to the Olympics love it or leave it preferably you can leave it because I can no longer support you in any way as one of our Olympians
Part Native American and Vietnam veteran
Only real Americans should be allowed to represent this Nation in front of the world. My 42+ years as a soldier was not made to support people who are not dedicated to this nations people.
I believe we need a law most of the worlds other countries have that will revoke your citizenship and tell you to go where you will happy.
God Bless the USA.
Send her to China or Iraq!
This USELESS Piece of work does NOT and Should NOT represent America. She MUST be barred from the Olympics at once.
She’s a disgrace to the American Olympic team and should not permitted to compete. If that’s how she feels about her country then perhaps it’s time for her to leave and go live somewhere else. The Olympics are not the place for political protests.
If you just want to politically protest, pay your own way to Japan, find your own housing, find your own transportation, and find your own training facilities. If you cannot do that, at least act like a proud American.
Who can support anyone that hates are country? If you hate it so much get the hell out. Oh wait if you were to leave you could never find a better country that is as free and allows independence and independent thinkers (that is for now if you and your ilk get their way – God forbid)
Patience. There is life after the Olympics. Participants make money on endorsements, appearances, etc. Biden may excuse her disrespect but the Big Business will not. She is not
commercial. Every time she opens mouth, she makes things worse. She says that she did not say she hated the US but loves her people. She is going to find out just what her people think of her. She says she is bigger than sports. The young lady is full of herself. Who is she
outside of the Olympics? Before she showed her “fanny” who had heard of her? What you do not listen to, life will teach you. It is a harsh teacher. Her stupid move is going to follow her for the rest of her life.
This pig should be kicked off the team. I am going to boycott the Olympics just as I have dumped NFL, NBA, and MLB. No Hollywood and now no sports in my household – ever!
You and all the other attention given to her, have taken a little-known activist athlete and made her a leftist hero.