Taste Flav runs 4 days of parades, panels, and pool events in Vegas for 150 feminine Olympians who lastly get their flowers.

Taste Flav placed on essentially the most wide-ranging ladies’s sports activities celebration Las Vegas has ever hosted this week, bringing round 150 feminine Winter Olympians and Paralympians to the Strip for the first-ever SHE Weekend. The four-day occasion ran July 16 by 19, standing for Sports activities, Hospitality, and Leisure, and it delivered on all three from parade to pool celebration.

A single tweet from Flav in February, as FOX5 coated, providing to host the U.S. ladies’s hockey workforce after they handed on a White Home invite following their gold-medal win on the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, grew right into a full motion. MGM Resorts offered over 100 complimentary lodge rooms, Delta Air Strains coated flights, and Dove signed on as a sponsor, giving the athletes the type of send-off that gold medalists in ladies’s sports activities hardly ever see.

Flav’s push for ladies’s sports activities goes again additional than one tweet. After water polo captain Maggie Steffens went public in 2024 about athletes working a number of jobs simply to compete, he traveled to Paris to personally again the whole U.S. Ladies’s Water Polo workforce when his supervisor had urged he sponsor only one participant.

Thursday evening’s parade moved from Park MGM down Las Vegas Boulevard to Toshiba Plaza, the place Clark County officers gave the athletes a proper key to the Strip and Public Enemy, Grace Bowers, and Blu deTiger closed the evening with a free outside set. Saturday’s occasions shifted to the profession aspect, with athletes spending the day in model conferences and networking classes that The GIST organized, connecting the Olympians instantly with potential sponsors and executives. Two-time Olympic bobsledder Kaysha Love advised FOX5 that Flav’s backing modified the trajectory of the U.S. bobsled workforce, and that the sample of each workforce he helps profitable medals isn’t unintended.

Gold-medal hockey participant Alex Carpenter advised ESPN the size of celebration at SHE Weekend was one thing she’d by no means skilled for ladies’s sports activities, with different hockey gamers like Taylor Heise and bobsled and skeleton athletes all saying the identical. The weekend wraps at present at Tailgate Seaside Membership, a brand new 50,000-square-foot sports activities pool venue at Mandalay Bay with over 125 ft of LED screens, the place the athletes get a correct send-off.

Flav’s GoFundMe for the athletes had already topped $133,000 earlier than SHE Weekend even got here to a detailed.

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