Vanderbilt’s discus thrower and Olympian Veronica Fraley lamented on social media that she needed help paying the rent.
Hip-hop artist Flavor Flav and entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian decided to help.
Soon after Fraley posted on the social media platform, X, that she was in need of financial assistance, Flav, founding member of the hip-hop group Public Enemy and a big fan of USA Water Polo, responded: “I gotchu.”
Right on top that, Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit and husband of tennis star Serena Williams, wrote: “Got you!” He followed through, too, by posting a picture of paying $7,760.00 and writing, "’Murica.”
The athlete said: “the rules [] bar me from making the amount I’m WORTH as a collegiate athlete such as NIL which favors popularity over performance”
Professional athletes are basically entertainers, and people pay to watch sports they find entertaining. It’s too bad for her that discus isn’t one of those sports. I don’t know what she’s suggesting, that someone(?) be forced to pay athletes who are extremely good at their sports, even if nobody is particularly interested in watching those sports?
Also didn’t she win bronze? May as well win a participation award at that point.
Show us your Olympic medals there chief