Gwen Berry Announces Plans Taking Victory Podium, Using It To ‘Represent the Oppressed People’

All the world is a stage and the athletes upon it merely protesters.

So runs the logic of U.S. Olympian Gwen Berry, who on Sunday advanced to the finals of the hammer throw in the Tokyo Games.

Berry, who indulged in a much-publicized protest of the national anthem at the Olympic track and field trials in June and was put on probation for a year for a raised-fist protest in 2019’s Pan Am Games, was asked what antics might lie ahead for the world to witness should she win a medal on Tuesday.

“I haven’t given it much thought because it’s easy,” she said, according to the Los Angeles Times. “I’m going to represent, and that’s it.”

Berry said her first goal is to win a gold medal and her second is to do her best. The Olympian said social justice wins the bronze medal of her priorities.

“My third goal is just to represent, man,” she said. “Represent the oppressed people. That’s been my message for the last three years.”

Berry said the United States, the nation she represents, is in the greatest need of repair.

“Just making sure that I bring awareness to the situations that are going on around the world, but especially in America with oppression and social injustice, for sure,” she said.

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