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Flavor Flav created an "Olympic moment" at the 2024 VMAs.
On Wednesday (September 11), Flavor Flav and Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles took the stage at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards to present the night's first award for Best Collaboration.
Flav said he wanted to create an "Olympic moment" onstage and presented Chiles with a blinged-out medal after the star gymnast, who represented Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympics, was stripped of her bronze. During the sweet moment, the rapper put the bronze clock medal around Chiles' neck as she shook her head in disbelief.
Flav initially shared a video of the necklace he made for Chiles on social media last month amid controversy over the bronze medal she earned during the gymnastics floor final.
During the event, Chiles initially posted a score of 13.666, falling short of Romanian Ana Barbosu's score of 13.700. However, Chiles' coaches challenged her difficulty score, which added 0.1 to her total and earned her the bronze medal.
Barbosu's team later lodged a complaint that the U.S. didn't make its inquiry into Chile's score within the one-minute deadline. CAS later ruled in favor of Romania, reinstating Chiles' original score of 13.666 and moving Bărbosu’s back to bronze.
The U.S. attempted to appeal the decision to strip Chiles of her bronze medal with video evidence that its inquiry was requested before the one-minute cut-off time. However, CAS declined to reconsider its ruling.
In a lengthy statement addressing the controversy last month, Chiles thanked her fans and USA Gymnastics for their support during "one of the most challenging moments" of her career.
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