I was hot, I was ready to take my pictures and get into some shade.”Īnd so, while winner DeAnna Price and second-place finisher Brooke Andersen stood still on the podium with their hands over their hearts and stared straight ahead at the American and Oregon flags, Berry fidgeted and paced on the third step. ‘”I didn’t really want to be up there,” she said. Patrick Smith/Getty Imagesĭespite her own questionable antics while her nation’s anthem played, Berry called out the Olympic trial organizers as being inappropriate - to her. Gwendolyn Berry (from left) turns away from US flag during the national anthem as DeAnna Price and Brooke Andersen also stand on the podium after the Women’s Hammer Throw final on day nine of the 2020 US Olympic Track & Field Team Trials at Hayward Field on June 26, 2021, in Eugene, Oregon. Eventually I stayed there and I swayed, I put my shirt over my head. “They had enough opportunities to play the national anthem before we got up there,” Berry said in Oregon, where the trials are being held. “I feel like it was a setup, and they did it on purpose,” Berry said of the anthem being played. Gwen Berry - who qualified for her second US Olympic team during the trials - shifted to face the stands rather than the flag before holding up a black shirt that read, “Activist Athlete.” A US hammer thrower turned away from the American flag as the national anthem played while she and two other athletes stood on the podium at the Olympic trials Saturday, later saying she was “pissed” that “The Star-Spangled Banner” played as she received her bronze medal.
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