a special thank you to each of our subscribers who make this channel possible here's today's story while presenting the award for best collaboration at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards flavor flave gifted Olympic gymnast Jordan childes her very own diamond encrusted bronze stopwatch as a condolence after her 2024 Paris Olympic medal was stripped following a scoring appeal dispute I just want to turn this into a little Olympic moment for in this case believe the hypee rapper flavor flave and US Olympian Jordan Childs had a sweet moment together at the 2024 VMAs in New York on Wednesday the duo opened the MTV Video Music Awards as the Show's first presenters of the evening while on stage flave took a moment to acknowledge the stripping of child's 2024 Olympic bronze medal the can't trusted artist 65 surprise the gymnast 23 with a bronze clock necklace to replace it I know they're trying to take your medal away from you but you know what I got you something that they can't take away from you flave who sponsored the US Women's Water Polo team at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games said before handing her the rose gold bling that's why I wanted to turn this into an Olympic moment Jordan he continued and guess what else too I got your prize money too I got that for you I just wanted to surprise you with that all Olympic athletes take home a monetary prize too flave added Jordan you did your thing congratulations you deserve everything wow I don't know what to say Charles responded thank you so much Flav's sweet gesture comes as the Olympian continues to fight for her bronze medal last month the US Olympic and Par Olympic Committee announced that they would appeal the court of arbitration for sport ruling that resulted in her being stripped of her bronze medal in the floor exercise at the games Cas retroactively knocked childes from third in the event down to fifth saying that the inquiry that improved her score by 1/10th of a point came 4 seconds after the time limit to make such inquiries the International Gymnastics Federation and international Olympic Committee both agreed they would adhere to the cas decision meaning that Romanian gymnast Anna barbosu would win bronze with Sabrina manika Barbosa's teammate and fourth we firmly believe that Jordan rightfully earned the bronze medal and there were critical errors in both the initial scoring by the International Gymnastics Federation and the subsequent Cas appeal process that need to be addressed the Uso said in a statement at the time the initial error occurred in the scoring by fig and the second error was during the cas appeal process where the Usopp was not given adequate time or notice to effectively challenge the decision as a result we were not properly represented or afforded the opportunity to present our case comprehensively in August flave explained why he made child's her own clock chain one of the best feelings that an athlete can have is when they're winning or when they want something you feel me he told USA today at the time I'm quite sure that for Jordan Charles and any other athlete that ever went through that how devastating the feeling can be the bronze clock that I made for Jordan CHS it's a gift of love it's a gift of appreciation he added it's a gift that we recognize who you are we appreciate who you are that girl went out there and performed her behind off for that medal she rightfully won the Medal the Public Enemy icon first tweeted the Decked Out necklace after news of child's Scandal hit right USA going to fight the powers that be in the meantime between Time Emma always a man of my word at Charles Jordan the athletes mom Gina childes responded thank you means the world she's not on socials right now as you can imagine we share it with her childes teammate and fellow Olympian Simone biles addressed the controversy via Instagram sending you so much love Jordan she wrote keep your chin up Olympic champ fellow teammate Sunni Lee also posted on her Instagram stories all this talk about the athlete what about the judges completely unacceptable this is awful and I'm gutted for Jordan I got your back forever Joe you have all my flowers and you will always be an Olympic champion on Wednesday Charles admitted she felt like she had been left in the dark amid the Fallout the biggest thing that was taken from me was that it was the recognition of who I was not just my sport but the person I am child said at the Forbes power Women's Summit to me everything that has gone on it's not about the metal it's about my skin color it's about the fact that there were things that have led up to this position of being an athlete and I felt like everything has been stripped I can feel it now she continued but at first it was really hard to really take that in because of how badly my heart was broken regardless of what happens childes walked away with her head held high I made history and I will always continue to make history and something that I rightfully did 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