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Rapper Flavor Flav is bringing his signature energy to winter sports, securing a role as the official sponsor and hype man for the U.S. bobsled and skeleton team at the 2026 Winter Olympics, Rolling Stone<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n Flav\u2019s appearance will mark the second Olympic partnership for the Public Enemy co-founder and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, who previously hyped up the U.S. women\u2019s water polo team at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the report said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe partnership is a blessing\u2026 It\u2019s cooler than Cool Runnings. It\u2019s Coolest Runnings,\u201d Flav told The Associated Press<\/a> \u2014 dropping a callback to the 1993 film about the Jamaican bobsleigh team\u2019s 1988 Olympic debut.<\/p>\n According to Rolling Stone, prior to the announcement, Flav visited the Olympic track in Park City, Utah, where he tried skeleton \u2014 the headfirst sliding sport \u2014 for the first time<\/p>\n Flav\u2019s presence has already had an impact on the team, according to U.S. skeleton athlete Dan Barefoot.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have all been so hyped to have him with us,\u201d Barefoot told AP. \u201cPut aside the fact that Flav is one of the greatest hype men of all time, the energy in the room\u2026 you had people who often aren\u2019t talking to each other high-fiving and hugging because of the experience of being around him. There\u2019s a lot of energy and a lot of confidence around us right now.\u201d<\/p>\n During the 2024 Olympics, Flav went viral when photos circulated of him wearing patriotic versions of his iconic clock necklace while dressed in Team USA gear.<\/p>\n \u201cIf everything goes well, I\u2019ll be doing this for the next five years into the next Olympics,\u201d he told Rolling Stone in 2024, adding, \u201cI might even do it for another five.\u201d<\/p>\n Flav won\u2019t be the only beloved hip-hop performer to appear at the 2026 Winter Olympics, as rapper Snoop Dogg is set to reprise his role<\/a> as a special correspondent for the games, NBC Sports announced last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.silive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rapper Flavor Flav is bringing his signature energy to winter sports, securing a role as the official sponsor and hype man for the U.S. bobsled and skeleton team at the 2026 Winter Olympics, Rolling Stone reported. Flav\u2019s appearance will mark the second Olympic partnership for the Public Enemy co-founder and Rock & Roll Hall of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2121234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2121235,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121234\/revisions\/2121235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}