There s a lot of s t I don t do like I did when I was 18 or 20 : Activist-athlete Gwen Berry tries to brush off history of racially charged tweets and compares herself to Brett Kavanaugh during his SCOTUS nomination
Gwen Berry, 32, took to Twitter Saturday afternoon to defend her past offensive tweets
A series of derogatory comments she made about Chinese, Mexican and white people, as well as tasteless jokes about rape, came to light
Most of the tweets were around a decade old when the athlete was in her early 20s but were still online
Berry compared the dredging up of the posts to the allegations that surfaced against Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court nomination in 2018 that he sexually assaulted women in the 1980s
Offensive and tasteless tweets have resurfaced by Olympian Gwen Berry
The majority of those uncovered are more than ten years old but she was already competing for the United States on the national stage
The tweets include derogatory comments about Chinese, Mexican and white people
On Sunday, Berry staged a protest on the podium at the Olympic trials
The 32-year-old hammer thrower turned her back on the flag and anthem