Name: Olympian Turns Back On Flag During National Anthem
Uploaded: 2021-06-30T22:14:53.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Olympian Turns Back On Flag During National Anthem' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-06-30. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Olympian Turns Back On Flag During National Anthem' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-06-30. Transcript available.

Olympian who turned back on flag during Anthem says she feels set up by U.S.
track and field.
Oh, I saw this.
Gwen Berry turned away from the flag while the Anthem played.
She later draped a t-shirt that said activist athlete.
Yeah, athletes can do whatever they want, you know.
I think we definitely have been through a time where we got used to as a
country for a long time
and the athletes being happy to represent the country they were in, represent
America.
It's so funny.
There's a lot of people who are like, fuck America, but America is just a
society.
That's all it is.
And there's a lot of people out there who act like society, like it's all some
big plan against them.
It's just society, you know.
The activist athlete thing, I think some of it gets a little bit old.
You know, it's like, look, everybody, people have already done it.
Just play your sport.
That's kind of how I feel a little bit.
I also feel like she can do whatever she wants.
I feel like she'll just turn a lot of people off.
Some companies or something will come along and use her to be a voice for them
to get some product pushed across.
And that'll be that.
You know.
Now, though, it's a lot more pressure if she doesn't even win.
She got third place.
Third place.
Yes, it's great.
It's still the Olympics.
But let's get first place.
You didn't even beat two other countries.
Okay.
You're like, my country sucks.
Like, uh, it would have been better if you'd have gotten first.
Your country would be better.
So, I don't know.
I just, I'm not, I'm from the time where, man, it would have been anything to
be able to perform for the U.S.
This isn't my country.
It doesn't respect my views.
It's just a group of people trying their best.
That's all the country is.
And she just wants to make it about her.
That's what I think it is.
And that's just more the society.
It goes back to the lady at the frickin', with the signage at the Tour de
France.
She just wants to make it about her.
You know?
It's just like, how can I make this about me?
And in some ways, it's just kind of the generations that we're in right now.
We want to have our own platform.
Oh, this is who I am, but this is also how I feel.
I mean, I do it here on this.
But there is an interesting thing.
Could we long have expected athletes just to be an athlete?
Like, you're at your job.
But I do feel like it's kind of, I feel like it's disgraceful to America.
That's what I feel like.
I feel like, yes, you can do it.
But there's just, a lot of people, there's no gratitude for where we are.
You know?
The national anthem upset her.
It was hot out there.
I get it.
Some of those things, look, it's too hot.
Maybe they should have put them under a thing.
She would have been more comfortable.
I was thinking about what I should do.
Barry added.
Eventually, I just stayed there and just swayed.
I put my shirt over my head.
It was real disrespectful.
I know they do that on purpose, but it'll be all right.
I'll see what's up.
I see what's up.
Yeah.
Look, I've had this mentality.
People are out to get me.
It's all about me.
I don't know.
I have to get first.
Get first, and then we'll talk.
That's kind of how I feel on it.
But it makes me not want to cheer for her.
I'm an American.
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