“I compete in the Olympic Games TOMORROW and can’t even pay my rent,” she wrote on X, punctuating with an emoji wearing an incredulous expression. Enter Flavor Flav, the “hype man” of the US water polo teams, and Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian. The men, who’ve been cheering on Team USA at the Paris Olympics all week, banded together to not only pay Fraley’s rent for the month but cover her rent for the rest of 2024. Karwai Tang/WireImage/Getty ImagesFlav has been one of the most consistent and vocal supporters of women athletes at the Paris Olympics. Now, he sponsors both the US men’s and women’s water polo teams.

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