Riley Gaines broke down the non-public attack Simone Biles levied on her on social media and what it really meant for the Olympic gold medalist and considered one of the best gymnasts of all-time.
Gaines dropped the most recent episode of the “Gaines for Girls” podcast on OutKick and recorded the show a couple of hours after Biles got here after her on X. Gaines gave Biles her flowers as the most effective athletes to have ever performed in sports, but said the posts put a nasty mark on her resume.
“In only two tweets, Simone Biles principally tarnished her repute to anyone with a shred of honesty, to anyone with an ethical compass and to anyone with an inherent innate desire to guard women, to fight for equal opportunity for each men and ladies especially because it pertains to sports,” she said. “The conclusion I’m drawing based on the response we now have seen over the past 12-ish hours at this point on social media, she’s principally incinerated her legacy in only two tweets.”
Biles launched into an attack on Gaines on Friday as the previous NCAA All-American swimmer reacted to a transgender athlete winning a state championship in Minnesota softball.
The Olympic gymnast called Gaines a “bully” and said that “nobody in sports is protected with you around.”
Gaines said during her podcast that she believed that Biles’ post showed she could also be finished competing in gymnastics along with her apparent support of transgender athletes, taking a page out of Megan Rapinoe’s playbook. Rapinoe said in 2023 she would support a transgender player on the US women’s national team. She retired from the game later that yr.
“What she’s done here is pull up the ladder behind her,” Gaines said of Biles. “We’ve seen people like Megan Rapinoe do that. Simone Biles is just the most recent where apparently she’s done competing. Similar to Megan Rapinoe did – waited until they were done competing to take a stance on this issue, which for the lifetime of me I cannot understand.
“Take me out of the equation. Again, I don’t care in regards to the personal attacks. I cannot for the lifetime of me understand why Simone Biles, within the yr 2025, would advocate for this.”
Biles said she would welcome a debate or discussion to speak in regards to the issue of transgender athletes in girls’ and ladies’s sports. Gaines has been on the forefront of championing fairness in women’s sports since she tied with Lia Thomas within the 2022 NCAA Championships.
“I believe she blindly advocated for this without actually fascinated with the consequences of what this may seem like,” Gaines said. “How nobody would know Simone Biles if it weren’t for ladies’s gymnastics. … If her inclusive dream was a reality, she would have zero gold medals.”
Riley Gaines broke down the non-public attack Simone Biles levied on her on social media and what it really meant for the Olympic gold medalist and considered one of the best gymnasts of all-time.
Gaines dropped the most recent episode of the “Gaines for Girls” podcast on OutKick and recorded the show a couple of hours after Biles got here after her on X. Gaines gave Biles her flowers as the most effective athletes to have ever performed in sports, but said the posts put a nasty mark on her resume.
“In only two tweets, Simone Biles principally tarnished her repute to anyone with a shred of honesty, to anyone with an ethical compass and to anyone with an inherent innate desire to guard women, to fight for equal opportunity for each men and ladies especially because it pertains to sports,” she said. “The conclusion I’m drawing based on the response we now have seen over the past 12-ish hours at this point on social media, she’s principally incinerated her legacy in only two tweets.”
Biles launched into an attack on Gaines on Friday as the previous NCAA All-American swimmer reacted to a transgender athlete winning a state championship in Minnesota softball.
The Olympic gymnast called Gaines a “bully” and said that “nobody in sports is protected with you around.”
Gaines said during her podcast that she believed that Biles’ post showed she could also be finished competing in gymnastics along with her apparent support of transgender athletes, taking a page out of Megan Rapinoe’s playbook. Rapinoe said in 2023 she would support a transgender player on the US women’s national team. She retired from the game later that yr.
“What she’s done here is pull up the ladder behind her,” Gaines said of Biles. “We’ve seen people like Megan Rapinoe do that. Simone Biles is just the most recent where apparently she’s done competing. Similar to Megan Rapinoe did – waited until they were done competing to take a stance on this issue, which for the lifetime of me I cannot understand.
“Take me out of the equation. Again, I don’t care in regards to the personal attacks. I cannot for the lifetime of me understand why Simone Biles, within the yr 2025, would advocate for this.”
Biles said she would welcome a debate or discussion to speak in regards to the issue of transgender athletes in girls’ and ladies’s sports. Gaines has been on the forefront of championing fairness in women’s sports since she tied with Lia Thomas within the 2022 NCAA Championships.
“I believe she blindly advocated for this without actually fascinated with the consequences of what this may seem like,” Gaines said. “How nobody would know Simone Biles if it weren’t for ladies’s gymnastics. … If her inclusive dream was a reality, she would have zero gold medals.”
