ONLY IN AMERICA, CAN A PERSON WHO HATES THEIR COUNTRY, REPRESENT THEIR COUNTRY IN THE OLYMPICS.

EUGENE, Ore. (Wokeville Gazette) — There's a certain routine for the top-three finishers in an event at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials, after they secure their spots on Team USA. They're handed an American flag and a bouquet of flowers. They stand on the podium. They take some pictures. Then they take a victory lap around Hayward Field, to cheers from the crowd.

But for Gwen Berry, something unexpected happened. For some ungodly reason, organizers of the U.S. Olympics qualifying event decided to do the unthinkable; namely, to play The Star-Spangled Banner.

"I feel like it was a setup. I feel like they did that on purpose," Berry said. "And I was pissed, to be honest."

To show her distain, Berry turned her back to the American flag and put a black shirt over her face with the words, 'Activist Athlete' in bold white letters.

"It was funny because they said they were going to play (the anthem) before we actually walked out, and then it just so happened that they played it when we were out there," Berry said. "So, you know, it's OK. I really don't want to talk about the anthem because that's not important. The anthem don't speak for me. It never has."

While it is true that the anthem doesn't speak for Gwen—in all actually it doesn't even speak at all since it's a song—she will now be one of of several other activist athletes who have promised to use the platform they will get, at the Olympics, to showcase their hatred and distain for the country they will be representing at the Olympics.

It is also fairly safe to suggest, that only in America could an athlete be awarded the freedom and opportunity to embarrass, sabotage, and undermine the very freedoms and values they are granted by that country they reject and criticize. Berry, will be sent by America, as an ambassadors, and will be given the freedom to ridicule the United States and its anthem, on the world stage.

So, in some ways, Gwen Berry owes a great deal of gratitude to America, for the freedom she will be given to denounce and repudiate America, in Tokyo.