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Riley Gaines broke down the personal attack that Simone Biles charged on her on social media, and what it really meant to the Olympic gold medal and one of the greatest gymnasts of time.
Gaines dropped the latest episode of “Gaines for Girls” podcast on the outkick and recorded the show a few hours after Biles came after her on X. Gaines gave Biles her flowers as one of the best athletes ever appeared in sports but said the posts put a bad mark on her resume.
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Simone Biles during an exercise session before Olympic summer matches in Paris 2024 at the Bercy Arena in Paris on July 25, 2024. (Kyle Terada-usa Today Sports)
“On only two tweets spots Simone Biles basically his reputation for everyone with a bunch of honesty, to anyone with a moral compass and to anyone with an inherent congenital desire to protect women, to fight for equal opportunities for both men and women, especially as it relates to sports,” she said. “The conclusion I draw based on the answer we have seen in the last 12-ish hours at this time on social media, she has basically burned her legacy of only two tweets.”
Biles launched in an attack on Gaines on Friday when former NCAA All-American Swimmer responded to a transgender athlete who won a state championship in Minnesota Softball.
The Olympic Gymnast called Gains a “bully” and said that “No one in sports is safe with you around.”
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Riley Gaines has advanced justice in women’s sports. (Xx-xy athletics)
Gaines said under her podcast that she thought Biles’ posts showed that she might have finished competing in gymnastics with her apparent support from transking athletes, taking a page out of Megan Rapinoes Playbook. Rapinoe said in 2023 that she would support a transgender player on the American woman’s national team. She retired from the sport later that year.
“What she has done here is to pull up the ladder behind her,” Gaines said of Biles. “We’ve seen people like Megan Rapinoe do this. Simone Biles is just the latest where she seems to have finished competing. Just as Megan Rapinoe did – waited until they finished competing to take an attitude about this question that I can’t understand for me.
“Take me out of the equation. Again, I don’t care about the personal attacks. I can’t understand why Simone Biles in the year 2025 would go in for this.”
Biles said she would welcome a debate or discussion to talk about the question of transient athletes in girls and women’s sports. Gaines have been at the forefront of advancing fairness in women’s sports since she tied with Lia Thomas in the 2022 NCAA championships.
Simone Biles looks at before her floor routine during the American Olympic Team Gymnastics attempt at Target Center in Minneapolis on June 30, 2024. (Matt Krohn -usa Today Sports)
“I think she blindly talked to this without actually thinking about the effects of what this would look like,” Gaines said. “How no one would know Simone Biles if it wasn’t for women’s gymnastics. … If her inclusive dream was a reality, she would have zero gold medals.”
