The USA Track & Field Foundation announced Wednesday that it will pay grants to 100 elite American athletes. Gwen Berry, an Olympic hammer thrower, isn’t one of them. And she has decided, after keeping quiet for almost a year, that she no longer can.
The USATF Foundation, Berry says, has essentially punished her for protesting “extreme injustice” after winning gold at the Pan-American Games last summer.
“I know for sure that I wasn't chosen [for a grant] because of my stance on the podium,” Berry told Yahoo Sports on Wednesday. “Because I was told that.