Riley Gaines broke down the non-public assault Simone Biles levied on her on social media and what it actually meant for the Olympic gold medalist and one of many biggest gymnasts of all-time.
Gaines dropped the most recent episode of the “Gaines for Girls” podcast on OutKick and recorded the present just a few hours after Biles got here after her on X. Gaines gave Biles her flowers as the most effective athletes to have ever carried out in sports activities, however mentioned the posts put a foul mark on her resume.
“In just two tweets, Simone Biles basically tarnished her reputation to anyone with a shred of honesty, to anyone with a moral compass and to anyone with an inherent innate desire to protect women, to fight for equal opportunity for both men and women especially as it pertains to sports,” she mentioned. “The conclusion I’m drawing based on the response we have seen over the past 12-ish hours at this point on social media, she’s basically incinerated her legacy in just two tweets.”
Biles launched into an assault on Gaines on Friday as the previous NCAA All-American swimmer reacted to a transgender athlete successful a state championship in Minnesota softball.
The Olympic gymnast known as Gaines a “bully” and mentioned that “no one in sports is safe with you around.”
Gaines mentioned throughout her podcast that she believed that Biles’ publish confirmed she could also be completed competing in gymnastics together with her obvious help of transgender athletes, taking a web page out of Megan Rapinoe’s playbook. Rapinoe mentioned in 2023 she would help a transgender participant on the US ladies’s nationwide crew. She retired from the game later that 12 months.
“What she’s done here is pull up the ladder behind her,” Gaines mentioned of Biles. “We’ve seen folks like Megan Rapinoe do that. Simone Biles is simply the most recent the place apparently she’s achieved competing. Similar to Megan Rapinoe did – waited till they had been achieved competing to take a stance on this problem, which for the lifetime of me I can’t perceive.
“Take me out of the equation. Again, I don’t care about the personal attacks. I cannot for the life of me understand why Simone Biles, in the year 2025, would advocate for this.”
Biles mentioned she would welcome a debate or dialogue to speak concerning the problem of transgender athletes in ladies’ and ladies’s sports activities. Gaines has been on the forefront of championing equity in ladies’s sports activities since she tied with Lia Thomas within the 2022 NCAA Championships.
“I think she blindly advocated for this without actually thinking about the effects of what this would look like,” Gaines mentioned. “How no one would know Simone Biles if it weren’t for women’s gymnastics. … If her inclusive dream was a reality, she would have zero gold medals.”
