U.S. Olympic gymnastics legend Simone Biles found herself in an unfamiliar position recently: being on the losing side.
The multi-gold medal winner chose to clash with women’s sports advocate and former elite NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines on the issue of trans athletes earlier this month in a social media debate that turned nasty and ended with Biles backtracking and apologizing to Gaines.
Biles faced tremendous backlash over her pro-trans comments, and it appears that led to the gymnastics champion deleting her X account.
Gaines was among the first to notice Biles’ retreat from X and lamented seeing a “such a phenom go down like this.”
Gaines wrote, “-has an incredibly unpopular and morally indefensible take, gets rightfully ridiculed for it, issues a groveling
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