Gwen Berry, who nobody knew until about a week ago, recently scored third place in the hammer throw at the trials for the Olympics in Tokyo.
Berry quickly gained the spotlight after she protested the playing of the national anthem at the awards ceremony of the event.
Pulling her ‘activist athlete’ t-shirt over her head was apparently the only way she knew how to cope with what was clearly a conspiracy against her.
Fox News reported,
On the playing of the anthem, Berry said she felt like she was set up. She claimed she was told that the anthem would be played before she took the podium.
“They had enough opportunities to play the national anthem before we got up there,” Berry said, according to The New York Post. “I was thinking about what I should do. Eventually I stayed there and I swayed, I put my shirt over my head. It was real disrespectful.”
“They said they were going to play it before we walked out, then they played it when we were out there,” she continued. “… But I don’t really want to talk about the anthem because that’s not important. The anthem doesn’t speak for me. It never has.”
“My purpose and my mission is bigger than sports,” she added. “I’m here to represent those … who died due to systemic racism. That’s the important part. That’s why I’m going. That’s why I’m here today.”
The hammer thrower insisted that officials had promised her the anthem wouldn’t be played while she was onstage. Berry doubled down after receiving boatloads of backlash on social media in response to her tantrum.
Now, an old photo has resurfaced that’s caused Donald Trump, Jr., and others to wonder if her Olympic-sized hissy fit was an act.
The picture shows Gwen Berry grinning from ear to ear and proudly holding up an American flag behind her. While it seems like a much more appropriate way for an American athlete to act, the only surviving patriotic image dug up so far made some wonder if she was only pretending to be woke for the money and fame.
Old Gwen Berry photo shows her beaming while holding US flag amid Old Glory controversy https://t.co/QvXsGbhjKN pic.twitter.com/Byulo9eenj
— New York Post (@nypost) July 1, 2021
On top of that, some older racist messages surfaced as well.
