Flavor Flav and Serena Williams’ husband Alexis Ohanian team up to help Olympic athlete to pay her rent while she competes in Paris 2024
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) doesn’t award Olympians prize money for earning medals, but there are ways some of the top winning athletes are being compensated.
In some cases certain individual governments and private sponsors often pay top participants with cash and some instances property, as reported by CBS News.
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But in most cases, the typical athletes struggles to pay their living and training expenses, such as U.S. team member Veronica Fraley, who competes as a track and field discus thrower, resorted to making her financial plight public with a post on social media on Thursday.
‘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,’ she shared on X (formerly Twitter).
Wasting little time, hip-hop legend Flavor Fav stepped in to help put the discus throwers mind at ease so she can focus on the task at hand.
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The Public Enemy star offered to pay the money Frale needed to put her mind at ease
Reddit co0foumer Alexis Ohanian, 41, chimed in on the conversation and offered to pay half of the money to Fraley
‘I gotchu,,, DM me and I’ll send payment TODAY so you don’t have to worry bout it TOMORROW,,, and imma be rooting for ya tomorrow. LETZ GO,!!!,” the rapper responded on X (formerly Twitter).
Less than 10 minutes later, Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, jumped into the conversation and offered his assistance.
‘C’mon now! I’ll split it with @flavorfav,’ the businessman, 41, and husband of retired tennis superstar Serena Williams replied.
Less than two hours later, Ohanian took back to X and wrote, ‘Update! It is done,’ he simply wrote in a post, along with another message saying Veronica Fraley was paid out $7,760.
‘Man of my word… and Imma try and come by and support you in person tomorrow …. LMK what time,’ the Fight The Power rapper of answered back to Fraley.
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Fraley, 24, a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, is track and field athlete who competes in the discus throw, who set a new personal best of 67.17 meters at the Oklahoma Throws Series meeting in In April 2024.
For Fraley, who boasts to be able to bench press a whopping 350 lbs., is competing in her very first Olympic games in Paris 2024.
The Public Enemy front man promised to send out a payment that very same day so Fraley can focus on the task at hand on Friday
Ohanian, who’s best attending the Paris 2024 Olympics with wife Serena Williams and their two kids, sent a message les than two hours later that $7760 was paid out
Hey boyyyyy: Flavor Flav has ‘gotchu’ and pays the rent of Veronica Fraley of North Carolina
Flav has been getting plenty of good press over his generous donation
It turns out Flavor (born William Jonathan Drayton Jr.), 65, had already been helping fund the U.S. Women’s Water Polo team in Paris,
‘My girl on the water polo team, her name is Maggie Steffens, put out a story, you know what I’m saying, and my manager turned me on to the story,’ he shared in an Instagram Story video. ‘So when I read the story I said to myself, “Let me try to help these girls out and get the glory.’
Flav, who has become known as a hype man for U.S. women’s water polo, sponsored the team after finding out that Steffens and other Olympians have had to work multiple jobs to support their athletic careers, according to NBC News.
Flav said through the representative that he is ‘happy to help out those who are representing the best of us. This is exactly why I’m in Paris and the awareness I been trying to bring to these athletes needs.’
When it comes to Olympic earnings for their accomplishments, payouts can vary depending on the medals earned, but Team USA pays $37,500 in bonuses for a gold medal, $22,500 for a silver medal, and $15,000 for a bronze medal, according to Live Sports on TV.
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It turns out Flavor (born William Jonathan Drayton Jr.), 65, had already been helping fund the U.S. Women’s Water Polo team in Paris
Ohanian has been enjoying the Paris 2024 Olympics with wife Serena Williams and their two kids; the family is pictured at the Opening Ceremony onJuly 26
Flav said through the representative that he is ‘happy to help out those who are representing the best of us. This is exactly why I¿m in Paris and the awareness I been trying to bring to these athletes needs’; Flavor Flav has been a visible fan of Team USA at Paris 2024
In comparison, other countries like Singapore pays athletes $737,000 for a gold medals, which is nearly a $700,000 difference compared to he U.S,, and that for people who qualify for medals.
The Summer Olympics tends to garner more athletes competing in its games compared to the Winter Games, with these games in Paris 2024 attracting 10,714 athletes from 206 different nations, plus coaches and team officials.
Fraley will be competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics on Friday in Group B.
The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, which is being telecasted on NBC stations, officially kicked-off on July 26 and runs through until August 11.
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