The rapper Taste Flav will host a Las Vegas occasion in July to honour the US girls’s ice hockey group’s gold medal on the Milano Cortina Olympics and have a good time all different feminine Olympian and Paralympian achievement.
The Corridor of Fame rapper introduced on X on Thursday that he’ll host a She Acquired Sport weekend occasion from 16-19 July in partnership with MGM Resorts to honour the ladies’s hockey group in addition to different feminine athletes.
The 66-year-old artist is a longtime supporter of ladies’s sports activities and he additionally launched a GoFundMe marketing campaign to again US girls’s Olympic medallists.
“A lot of y’all requested how one can assist and donate to our feminine athletes and the celebrations. So I created a Go Fund Me. I’m hopeful this may have an effect past the weekend and assist those who signify the most effective of the US,” he wrote on X.
Reuters sought remark from USA Hockey concerning whether or not the complete 23-strong squad could be attending the occasion. Nonetheless, they it not instantly reply.
Flav, a founding member of the pioneering hip hop group Public Enemy, provided the squad a Las Vegas journey for “an actual celebration” with dinners and reveals, sharing a proper e-mail he stated was despatched to the gamers.
The invitation got here shortly after the ladies’s group declined to attend Donald Trump’s State of the Union deal with on Tuesday. USA Hockey cited logistics and journey points in politely declining the invitation for the ladies to hitch the lads’s gold medal-winning group on the deal with.
The US president’s invitation got here late on Sunday throughout a locker room name congratulating the lads’s group on their 2-1 additional time victory over Canada. The ladies’s group beat Canada by the identical rating and in additional time three days earlier.
“We’re going to should deliver the ladies’s group, you do know that,” Trump instructed the lads’s group, who have been with the FBI director, Kash Patel, later joking he would “in all probability be impeached” if he didn’t lengthen the invitation.
A reference to Trump’s remarks appeared within the message shared by Flav, who served as official hype man for the US bobsleigh and skeleton groups on the Milano Cortina Video games and beforehand supported the ladies’s water polo group on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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