Flavor Flav Unveils Bronze Clock He Made for Jordan Chiles After She Was Stripped of Olympic Medal

Mar. 15, 2025

Flavor Flav, the custom bronze clock necklace and Jordan Chiles on the podium at the 2024 Paris Olympics.Photo:Frazer Harrison/Getty Images; Mehmet Murat Onel/Anadolu via Getty Images

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images; Mehmet Murat Onel/Anadolu via Getty Images

Flavor Flavis making sureJordan Chilesisn’t empty handed from the2024 Paris Olympics.

In apost shared on X(formerly known as Twitter) on Monday, Aug. 12, he showed a video of the item, which featured several bronze rhinestones both inside and outside the clock and a bronze-colored hands set at the 12:00 mark. In the video, it hung off a white string as he turned it left and right to show it off in front of an American flag.

“USA gonna Fight the Powers that be,,, in the meantime between time,,, Imma always a man of my word@ChilesJordan,” he captioned the video, referencing his hip-hop group Public Enemy’s infamous song “Fight the Power.”

In response to the video, Chiles' mom, Gina Chiles,wrote, “Thank you. Means the world. She’s not on socials right now as you can imagine. I’ll share it with her.”

The musician’s unveiling of the clock necklace came a day after heoffered to make a custom piecefor the Team USA star, 23, amid the controversy.

On Monday Aug. 12, USA Gymnastics announced in a statementon social mediathat the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) had denied Chiles appeal to reinstate the bronze medal and she had beenstripped of the silverwareafter Romanian competitorsAna Barbosuand Sabrina Maneca-Voinea challenged her placement in the floor exercise final.

The American gymnast initially scored a 13.666 on her routine, putting her behind the Romanians, who were in 4th and 5th place with a score of 13.700. Chiles' coach Cecile Landi appealed the score, arguing that her difficulty should have been higher to include credit for a leap that involved performing a split in the air while turning 540 degrees.

Chiles was then awarded a score of 13.766, landing her with the bronze medal and a spot on the podiumalongside her teammate Simone Biles and Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade.

Jordan Chiles competing in the gymnastics floor exercise final at the Paris Olympics on August 05, 2024.Tom Weller/VOIGT/Getty

Tom Weller/VOIGT/Getty

However, CAS found that Landi submitted her challenge of Chiles' first score four seconds too late and she was stripped of her bronze medal.

The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) attempted to appeal the decision, claiming there wasvideo evidenceto show that Landi’s appeal was made in time.

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However, as of the CAS on Aug. 12, Barbosu, 18, is the only gymnast who will receive the bronze medal.

Flavor Flav; Jordan Chiles.Frazer Harrison/Getty Images; John Nacion/Getty Images

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images; John Nacion/Getty Images

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