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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Flavor Flav will be a torch bearer at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games

    The 65-year-old hip-hop artist, who sponsored the US women's and men's water polo teams at this year's Paris Olympics, has received the greenlight to perform the honour in four years, and the star admitted it is a "bragging right"


    Speaking in a Bluesky chat, he said : "In 2028, when the Olympics come to L.A., your boy Flavor Flav is going to be able to carry the torch.

    "It's a bragging right!.

    "It's going down for real."

    He shared the video on the social media site, and added the caption: "Word on the skeets,,, Flavor Flav gonna be carrying the Olympic torch on the LA streets,!!!

    #LA28 (sic) "

    In August, the Public Enemy member revealed he had applied to be an official torch bearer at the 2028 Games.

    Speaking on podcast 'Politickin' with Gavin Newsom, Marshawn Lynch, and Doug Hendrickson', he said at the time: "I put my bid in already.

    "I said, 'If Snoop can carry the torch in Paris - come on, man - Flav can carry that bad boy in LA, and Snoop did a fantastic job, man."

    Fellow hip hop legend Snoop Dogg and Pharrell Williams were both torch bearers at Paris 2024, and they followed in the footsteps of the likes of Spice Girls singer Mel C, music producer Mark Ronson and late singer and actress Olivia Newton-John.

    Flav recently made a bronze clock for US Olympian Jordan Chiles, to replace the Paris 2024 bronze medal she was ordered to return, after her coach made her appeal four seconds too late.

    'Fight the Power' hitmaker Flav shared the clock on social media, and wrote: "USA gonna Fight The Powers that be. but in the meantime between time, I gots yo back @jordanchiles Hit me up. (sic)"

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