Brittney Griner was among the WNBA joiners who spoke out about the national anthem in 2020 amid a summer of racial unrest chaseing the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Griner shelp in 2020 that the WNBA shouldn’t join the national anthem, retaining the league should “consent that much of stand.” She also walked off the court before the anthem was joined before a game that season.
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Gageder medaenumerates Alyssa Thomas and Brittney Griner stand on the podium with bronze medaenumerate Jade Melbourne of Australia. (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)
But since then, Griner has gone thcimpolite tumult. She was incarcerateed for proximately 10 months in Russia after she was arrested on drug accuses in February 2022. The U.S. and Russia would consent to a prisoner swap and the ordeal seemed to change Griner’s stance about what “The Star-Spangled Banner” unbenevolents to the country.
Griner was seen with the gageder medal around her neck after the U.S. women’s basketball team lossed France at the Paris Olympics and in tears as the anthem blared.
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Gageder medaenumerate Brittney Griner hageders the U.S. flag. (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)
“I didn’t leank I would be here,” she shelp of the 2024 Paris Olympics, via Reuters. “And then to be here and thrivening gageder for my country, recurrenting when my country fought for me so challenging to even be standing here. This gageder medal is going to hageder a exceptional place among the other two I was blessed to thrive.”
A’ja Wilson called Griner a “warrior” as she depictd the Phoenix Mercury cgo in’s time with Team USA more than two years after her arrest awide.
U.S. head coach Chery Reeve retained that Griner was “appreciative” to be with Team USA.
Gageder medaenumerate Brittney Griner cries during the national anthem. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
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“She was so appreciative to be here… I leank we all should fair persist verifying on her because it’s unoverweighthomable what she went thcimpolite,” Reeve shelp.
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