June 7, 2025
From GOAT to goat: What's with Simone Biles attacking Riley Gaines?
By Monica Showalter
Left-wing wokesterism has never led to any place good for athletes who practice it, but champion gymnast Simone Biles seems to think she's an exception.
She put out these inexplicable tweets, attacking swim champion and women's sports advocate Riley Gaines:
@Riley_Gaines_ You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive OR creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender…
https://t.co/pjpzuZ0AlO — Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) June 6, 2025
bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male @Riley_Gaines_
— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) June 6, 2025
Which should pretty well put paid to any respect for her, following her many Olympic victories. History shows that athletes who go loudly political on divisive issues -- think Colin Kaepernik, Megan Rapinoe -- tend to derail their own careers.
And she has picked a divisive one: Surveys show the vast majority of Americans are opposed to males competing in women's sports -- and elections are being won on this specific matter.
She's just joined the 20%, except that on this issue, I think the number is maybe 3%. It's a grotesquely unpopular opinion, disenfranchising girls from ever winning at sports in their own leagues which is why the sentiment is so intense.
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