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Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross have advanced to the quarterfinals of Beach Volleyball - and no one is more excited than Leslie Jones.
The comedian has become a fixture of the Rio Olympics after she began hilariously live tweeting the games from her living room last week.
NBC then invited Jones to the games, finally giving her the chance to meet the athletes she had been admiring from behind a screen, including Walsh Jennings.
Leslie bowed down as the volleyball superstars first walked toward her, but Walsh Jennings quickly lifted her up and straight into a hug.
Leslie Jones finally got to meet her idol Kerri Walsh Jennings after Team USA advanced to the quarterfinals in women"s beach volleyball on Friday night
Jones then gave Walsh Jennings and Ross one of her famous pep talks before her idol gave the comedian a special pin to wear for the rest of the Rio Olympics
In another hilarious Twitter video, Jones showed the moment she gave Walsh Jennings and Ross one of her famous pep talks.
You came out hard and strong, but yall put that fire out, yall let em know whose number one, we gonna take this! she told the women.
Walsh Jennings then pinned her and told her not to lose it during her next week in Rio, but Jones could only excitedly scream "Oh my G*d!"
It was the beautiful culmination to Jones" superfandom of Walsh Jennings, which she has been happy to share on social media during the Rio games.
"Keri! USA! USA! USA!" Jones can be heard screaming as the three-time Olympic gold medalist and her teammate claimed another victory in Rio.
"Slaying, they"re f*****g slaying like the warriors that they are," Jones says in another tweet. "The sand warriors that they are! Go Kerri, go April, go, go, go!"
In one tweet Jones asked her fans to send good energy to Walsh Jennings and Jones.
"They"re better than these Italian chicks man, they"re tough man, send some love this way, USA!" Jones said, her voice hoarse from her screams of support.
It was the beautiful culmination to Jones" superfandom of Walsh Jennings, which she has been happy to share on social media during the Rio games
"Slaying, they"re f*****g slaying like the warriors that they are," Jones says in another tweet. "The sand warriors that they are! Go Kerri, go April, go, go, go!"
At one point Jones hilariously apologized that she wasn"t tweeting as much as usual
"These b*****s look tough," she said of the Italian team. "But that"s okay! Cause Kerri and April slay all day!"
At one point Jones hilariously apologized that she wasn"t tweeting as much as usual.
"I"m trying to give all my energy to my girls, so if I"m not posting a lot its because I"m trying to give it all to them yo, they"re so f*****g incredible!" she said.
And Jones" love is hardly one-sided. Both Walsh Jennings and Ross retweeted the Ghosbusters star"s posts of appreciation about the unbeatable pair last week.
And Walsh Jennings made sure to tweet Jones when she finally touched down in Rio.
"I am SO pumped you"re coming!" she wrote to Jones on Wednesday.
Jones" love is hardly one-sided. Walsh Jennings said she couldn"t wait to meet the Ghostbusters star after her match on Friday
And Jones made sure to send some last words of support before it began
And when Jones asked the pair if she was officially meeting them after their match on Friday night, Walsh Jennings said she couldn"t wait, and asked Jones to send them some words of luck.
"GO GO GO YOU MIGHTY WARRIORS OF THE SAND!!," Jones wrote. "YOU GOT THIS!! AND YOU LOOK HOT DOING IT!! CHEAH SLAY ALL DAY USA!"
Jones kept the live tweets coming for her fans as she walked to meet her idol, telling them "I"m on my way to meet Kerri Walsh, I am losing all of my f*****g s**t right now."
"Please don"t let me embarrass myself."
Jones caught judo and trampoline before she headed to beach volleyball, watching the men"s match before Walsh Jennings and Ross stepped into the sand.
"Where are the speedos?" she inquired as she watched the men play.
Jones made sure to send her love to USA"s swimming team, as she had to miss Phelps" and Ledecky"s final individual races in Rio to catch Walsh Jennings.
"Slay all muthaf*****g day!" she wrote after another golden night for Team USA in the pool, including a world record by Ledecky.
"USA made that pool their b***h!"
Jones got to cheer on Phelps on Thursday night in Team USA"s personal cheering section, thanks to his teammate Conor Dwyer.
Jones shared her excitement on Twitter as she arrived at the Rio Olympics on Thursday. The SNL star was invited to cover the Games after her enthusiastic Tweets
It was there that she met Olympic gold medalist Lily King and hung out with massive swim fan (and Academy Award-winning actor) MatthewMcConaughey.
Jones, 48, started off her first day in Rio by catching the incredible women"s gymnastics all-around competition, where Simone Biles took gold.
"I just watched USA win a gold and silver medal! Yeah, I just did that!" Leslie said.
"Them folks down there got real medals, yo. So if I ran on the floor and snatched one of the medals, do you think they would beat my a***?," she joked.
The SNL star shared her amazement after arriving in Rio earlier on Thursday.
"We"re going through the streets of Rio... it"s crazy!" she said."It"s official y"all. I"m in Rio."
"We"re on our way to gymnastics, Man. We about to go see the USA kill it, man. That"s what we do."
Leslie quickly headed to the gymnastics as she cheered on Aly Raisman and Simone Biles as they won gold and silver in the all-around individual competition
"If I ran on the floor and snatched one of the medals, do you think they would beat my a***?" she joked after watching Simone and Aly claim gold and silver
"I really feel like there"s a lot of sexuals up in there," she joked while driving by the Olympic Village where athletes live during the competition
Driving past the Rio coastline, she added: "I"m telling you right now, the camera is not doing no justice for how beautiful this water is."
The actress kept the silly videos coming as she showed off her hotel, bragged about driving in the "Olympic lane" and speculated about all the hookups happening at the Olympic Village.
"Yeah b***ches, I am in Rio," she said, sharing video of her hotel"s pool."This is how we do it in Rio! I don"t see no d**n Zika nowhere," she said.
Arriving at the Olympic Village, the stand-up speculated about all the action going on between athletes, and joked about getting busted by the tough security.
"450,000 condoms CHEAH!", Leslie captioned a video of the apartment towers.
"Where all the athletes live at, yo. It"s called the Olympic Village," she explained, adding: "I really feel like there"s a lot of sexuals up in there. A lot of sexuals."
The Ghostbusters star was invited to cover the games by NBC after enthusiasticly live-Tweeting the Olympics
After she finally arrived at the gymnastics, the Top Five actress was quick to share the view from her seats and plot to get closer to the athletes.
"I am like actually here, watching these lovely gymnasts," she marveled, adding: "I"m trying to get a closer seat tho."
"Let"s go Aly! Team USA! Champion!" she cheered as she posted video of the warm-ups and the all-around competition.
The stand-up vet and Olympics die-hard was offered a job covering Rio for NBC after her enthusiastic live-Tweeting and love of the Games went viral last week.
Her coverage of the Games marked a triumphant comeback to Twitter, after Leslie quit the network in June over a torrent of racist and sexist abuse aimed at her by trolls angry that the "Ghostbusters" remake had replaced the original male cast with women.
In Rio, Leslie will attend live swimming, track and field, gymnastics, and beach volleyball, and will meeting athletes and share her passion for the Olympics on-air and online, NBC said.
The SNL star"s hilarious live Tweets of the Olympics from her living room quickly went viral and earned her an invite from NBC to cover the games in Rio
Milo Yiannopoulos, who helped lead the charge in getting Twitter users to attack Ghostbustersstar Leslie Joneswith racial epithets on Monday, has been permanently banned from the social media site.
Yiannopolouscurrently the tech editor for the conservative site Breitbart.comhas previously been temporarily suspended from Twitterfor his tendency to troll the internet, but this week, Twitter decided hed gone too far. He got into this exchange Monday with Jones after she began to retweet her most caustic mentions.
Responded Yiannopolous, who had 338,000 Twitter followers:As such, Twitter deleted him on Tuesday. Heres the statement Twitter gave Recode.People should be able to express diverse opinions and beliefs on Twitter. But no one deserves to be subjected to targeted abuse online, and our rules prohibit inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others. Over the past 48 hours in particular, weve seen an uptick in the number of accounts violating these policies and have taken enforcement actions against these accounts, ranging from warnings that also require the deletion of Tweets violating our policies to permanent suspension.
We know many people believe we have not done enough to curb this type of behavior on Twitter. We agree. We are continuing to invest heavily in improving our tools and enforcement systems to better allow us to identify and take faster action on abuse as it"s happening and prevent repeat offenders. We have been in the process of reviewing our hateful conduct policy to prohibit additional types of abusive behavior and allow more types of reporting, with the goal of reducing the burden on the person being targeted. Well provide more details on those changes in the coming weeks.
In response, the hashtags #FreeMilo and #FreeNero popped up on Twitter on Tuesday night.
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Meanwhile, it appears Jones is off Twitter for now.
Earlier on Tuesday, Yiannopolouswho established the Kernel, which was acquired by the Daily Dot in 2014told Heat Street, No, of course, I dont have any regrets [about the attack on Jones]. But feminists on the other hand should have regrets that they havetaught strong women that they are victims and attacked people for having different opinions to them on Twitter.
