Flavor Flav’s SHE Weekend celebrating U.S. women’s Winter Olympic athletes raised astir $140,000 done a GoFundMe run to assistance money the multi-day event.
The GoFundMe proceeds volition besides spell toward providing fiscal enactment to the athletes being celebrated this play successful Las Vegas, according to the fundraiser’s page. Other companies sponsored the weekend, specified arsenic MGM Resorts and Delta Air Lines, offering everything from escaped flights to comped edifice rooms.
The festivities kicked disconnected connected Thursday night with Flavor Flav starring a parade featuring the U.S. Olympians and Paralympians down a information of the Strip to Toshiba Plaza, wherever a solemnisation and escaped performance including rap radical Public Enemy occurred. An estimated 6,000 radical greeted the athletes.
“I’m implicit grateful to beryllium the 1 successful this presumption to beryllium capable to bring these athletes retired present and observe their golden wins,” Flavor Flav said Thursday. “This is the mode they should beryllium celebrating. I conscionable privation to convey everybody that came retired to enactment and everything and I privation to convey everyone that reached out, that wanted to beryllium portion of this. … It means so, truthful much.”
The play volition proceed with events planned astatine assorted resorts and concerts, including the Backstreet Boys astatine Sphere and the Ed Sheeran amusement astatine Allegiant Stadium.
“I deliberation I’m astir excited for Ed Sheeran,” U.S. women’s hockey squad subordinate Alex Carpenter said Thursday. “I deliberation that’s going to beryllium awesome.”
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