flavor flave and Alexis Ohanian are stepping up to help an Olympian who was struggling to pay her rent Veronica fry is in Paris for the Olympic Games competing in the Athletics women's discus throw on August 1st a day before qualifications the 24-year-old took to X in a post now seen more than 17 million times to reveal she was about to compete on one of the biggest stages in sports but could not afford to pay rent she wrote I compete in the Olympic Games tomorrow and can't even pay my rent my school only sent about 75% of my rent while they pay football players who haven't won anything enough to buy new cars and houses well flave and Alexis caught wind of her post and quickly stepped into action Alexis replying come on now I'll split it with flavor flave and the rapper replying I got you DM me and I'll send payment today so you don't have to worry about it tomorrow and I'm going be rooting for you tomorrow let's go Veronica replied writing thank you to both saying this makes every difference in the world and I hope to represent Team USA well this week and it appears the Two Men followed through Alexis sharing a screenshot of a payment for $776 Alexis explaining he sent that amount because he likes that number which is the name of his firm 776 on Friday before Veronica was set to compete she updated her followers writing it's meat day also paid my rent this morning Alexis who has been seen watch watching several events at the Olympics alongside wife Serena Williams and daughter Olympia posted a video Friday with a quick message for Veronica all right today is the start of Olympic track and Fields now I am actually at Disneyland Paris right now because I promised my girls but I'll be catching some events later on Don't You Worry uh Veronica we're going to be cheering for you get out there throw that disc be great and flavor flave has been supporting other Olympians as well sponsoring the US water polos men's and women's national teams after players revealed they needed financial support water polo Stars Maggie stepin and Ashley Johnson spoke to access about having the rapper support we've gotten to meet him a few times he's definitely a hype man it's really special to us to have someone who's championing us [Music]