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BREAKING NEWS Simone Biles DELETES social media account in wake of transgender athlete feud with Riley Gaines
Daily Mail UK ^ | June 22, 2025 | JAKE FENNER

Posted on 06/22/2025 8:41:51 PM PDT by Morgana

Three weeks after sparking a war of words with anti-trans activist Riley Gaines, apologizing for her targeted remarks, and being inundated with comments about the incident since, seven-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles has deleted her account on X, formerly Twitter.

Biles de-activated her account, which had nearly two million followers, after she came to the defense of a transgender high school athlete that Gaines had been attacking.

But after Biles personally insulted Gaines (for which she later apologized), it opened up a flood gate of attacks which appears to have led the 28-year-old gymnast - considered the greatest of all time - to remove her account on the platform.

Biles still has her accounts on Threads (with 2.1m followers) and Instagram (12.4m followers) active.

Gaines decided to deliver a parting shot to the gymnast, despite saying just yesterday that she'd be interested in forming an alliance with her.

Gaines claimed that Biles '-has an incredibly unpopular and morally indefensible take - gets rightfully ridiculed for it - issues a groveling public apology after unrelenting backlash - deletes account to pretend it never happened'. Gaines, who made a career out of politically advocating against trans people in sports after finishing tied for fifth with a trans woman at a swim meet, concluded, 'Sad to see such a phenom go down like this'.

Earlier this month, Gaines attacked a Minnesota high school on social media for fielding a softball team with a trans player.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: biles; internet; jakefenner; rileygaines; simonebiles; socialmedia; sports; trans
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To: lee martell
Its not somewhat unpopular.
It IS unpopular.
21 posted on 06/22/2025 10:27:40 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: nickcarraway

She has sponsors and companies she does ads for. Plus I think she coaches at her own school now. I told another freeper if I were a parent I’d pull my kid from that school. The USA team went through Dr. Larry Nasser now they have a former gymnaast who wants men in the women’s locker room? Yea I don’t think so. Not around my daughter you freak.


22 posted on 06/22/2025 10:37:47 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 )
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To: Morgana

Simone you are full of BILE. Time to learn from your mistakes, so ride out into the sunset never to be seen again. Bwahahahahahaha


23 posted on 06/22/2025 11:06:56 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: nickcarraway

But she IS a leftist and said what she said. Can’t believe people are tripping over open feet making excuses for Obama daughter


24 posted on 06/22/2025 11:09:01 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: lee martell

If Michael had a daughter it would be just like Simon


25 posted on 06/22/2025 11:10:06 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Morgana

Much like Jazzy Crockett, Biles played the black mean girl card on white Gaines. Accusing her of advocating for boys out of girls sports because she lost to a male is pretty low. She thought the black woman shield made her invulnerable and didn’t see a backlash coming. One of Biles former team mates even came out and stabbed her in the back. Also Biles was very late in coming out as a Larry Nassar victim.


26 posted on 06/22/2025 11:41:49 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: Morgana

Greatest Moron of all time


27 posted on 06/23/2025 2:19:33 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Morgana

That’s to bad. 😄


28 posted on 06/23/2025 3:32:47 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !!s)
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To: MotorCityBuck

Right? I’m crying over here...
Not
Live by the sword, die by the sword


29 posted on 06/23/2025 4:51:12 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: No name given

“ I’d say it’s the ONLY thing Simone is good at.”
Well if the top of her head was flat one cold rest a cold beverage on top of it.


30 posted on 06/23/2025 5:45:28 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: Morgana

Simone Biles is mentally unstable, and is the last person who should participate in social media. If she is going to compete, she needs someone to effectively manage her and focus her.


31 posted on 06/23/2025 6:09:46 AM PDT by rlmorel (To Leftists, Conservative Speech is Violence, while they view their Violence as Speech.)
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To: Morgana

For all we know Biles is a midget tranny


32 posted on 06/23/2025 6:20:43 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Morgana

Such a loser... a complete light weight.


33 posted on 06/23/2025 8:01:04 AM PDT by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: Maskot

Karma’s a …
Well, you know.😄


34 posted on 06/23/2025 8:07:58 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal !!s)
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To: Morgana

This article still tries to make Riley Gaines the bad one in all this.


35 posted on 06/23/2025 12:07:22 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: DeplorablePaul

And easy for her to say since she never had to compete against men either, unlike Gaines...


36 posted on 06/23/2025 12:09:29 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Rinnwald
"What!? Twitter is now X? When did that happen?"

I tried to get 'Z', but some guy with a black mask and cape took issue with it.

37 posted on 06/23/2025 1:56:49 PM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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To: Morgana

Biles just got ridiculed for her stupidity and leftism - I’m glad to see this.


38 posted on 06/23/2025 2:01:14 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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