The 2024 Summer Olympics are but a memory at this point, but for Public Enemy rapper Flavor Flav the flame is burning. The enthusiastic hip-hop man isn't done with the names and stories of US athletes, including the Paralympians who are set to take the stage in Paris next week.
“THIS is just one of the many @gofundme for the @Olympics and @Paralympics I'm supporting,” Flav tweeted about the August 28-September 28 games. 8. “Imagine spending 18 years taking your kid to every practice and game and working 2-3 jobs to buy gear, then not being able to watch them play the biggest game of their life.”
Flav was responding to a post by Paralympic sprinter Nick Mayhugh, who earlier this month wrote: “HELP SEND MY PARENTS TO PARIS! [gold medal emoji]. I've set up a @gofundme to help pay for expenses to send my parents to the #Paralympics ! They have never been out of the country and couldn't see me compete in Tokyo because of COVID. Any and all donations are appreciated!” The rapper was one of more than 300 people who have donated anywhere from $5 to $500 to the cause. appears to have donated $100 under his birth name, William Drayton. So far, the campaign has raised $11,126 of its $10,000 goal.
Three-time Olympic gold medalist Mayhugh is a 28-year-old Paralympian who just qualified for his second Paralympic team. The athlete, who discovered he had cerebral palsy at age 14, helped the US Men's Para Soccer National Team win its first bronze medal at the 2019 Para Pan American Games and then moved on to track and field for the Tokyo Olympics, where won a trio of golds in the 100m T37, 200m T37 and 4X100m medley at the 2021 Games.
“I am humbly asking for everyone's help in getting my parents to Paris to see me compete for Team USA and bring home more gold medals!” Mayhugh wrote on his GoFundMe.
Flav went all-in with Team USA this year, pledging $1,000 and a cruise for all members of the U.S. women's water polo team and helping cover rent for 24-year-old discus thrower Veronica Fraley and, before being rehabilitated, offering to gymnast Jordan Childs a giant bejeweled bronze watch in place of the bronze one she was briefly stripped of on a technicality.
The friendship with the water polo team made its way to Las Vegas recently, where the PE hype man became hyped with athletes at Resorts World on Saturday night after being welcomed to the resort with a giant American flag display on the front of the hotel. “I'm so proud of all these women. Look at all the support and attention given to this sport and women's athletics. We're changing the game and that's a BIG thing to celebrate,” Flav wrote on Instagram along with videos and photos of him partying with the ladies.
Check out Flav's tweet and Vegas party video below and check out Mayhugh's GoFundMe here.
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