When you win an Olympic gold medal, you deserve to party like a rockstar – and rap legends agree. After an epic run at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, the U.S. women’s ice hockey team snagged the gold by taking down their longtime rivals, Canada. It was a thrilling 2-1 overtime victory. The U.S. men’s team managed to match that exact feat a few days later.
After-win celebrations
During the men’s locker room celebration, President Donald Trump called in to congratulate the players and invite them to his State of the Union address. While on the phone, he also mentioned that “we’re going to have to bring the women’s team.” The conversation and the men’s team reaction quickly went viral, with the internet eager to see the women’s team response.
Shortly after the clip made the rounds online, USA Hockey released a statement officially declining the State of the Union invite on behalf of the women, citing “timing and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments.”
But that doesn’t mean that the women’s team isn’t getting a proper woo-hoo!
Flavor Flav invites the women’s ice hockey team to Vegas
The legendary Public Enemy hype man – who has kinda become the unofficial patron saint of U.S. women’s Olympic sports after financially backing the women’s water polo team – swooped in with a different offer. Taking to social media, Flavor Flav offered to throw the gold medalists a “real celebration” in Las Vegas.
“If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite, I’ll host them in Las Vegas,” the rapper wrote. “Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real.”
His management team sent a formal email to USA Hockey to make the offer official, promising to figure out all the logistics on their end. Oh, and because he loves sharing the spotlight, he also mentioned wanting to extend the Vegas invite to the U.S. bobsled and skeleton teams! They absolutely crushed it by bringing home 6 medals of their own.
Now…we may be biased. But hitting up Vegas for dinners, shows, and good times with a hip-hop icon sounds like the ultimate victory lap.