'I have never been more proud of Biles than I am now, nor more grateful for the gift she has given survivors while standing on the largest international stage.' DCampoamor writes that Biles is in the middle of her greatest fight yet — and still winning
Photo: Alex Livesey/Getty Images Simone Biles certainly did not need to compete in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She has a combined total of 6 Olympic medals and 25 World Championship medals. She has signature moves named after her that no other gymnast in the world can pull off.
Biles is, in fact, the only victim of former Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar — who was sentenced to 175 years in prison after more than 140 girls and young women he had abused came forward — representing Team USA. And while Biles went on to tell Kotb that the abuse she endured caused her to sleep “so much because, for me, it was the closest thing to death without harming myself,” she still felt she had an obligation to return.
Not everyone is okay with that, though. The very people who chastise survivors for waiting until they feel they’re physically, mentally, and emotionally able to tell their stories also want to see Biles put herself at risk. They are calling her “weak,” “immature,” and a “shame on our country.” That’s a lie, of course — for every 1,000 rapes that occur in the United States, 975 perpetrators will go free. It was a lie for the victims of Bill Cosby. It was a lie for Chanel Miller. And it was certainly a lie for Biles and the hundreds of other Nassar victims, who were victimized by a doctor they thought they could trust and, later, failed by both the institution they sacrificed everything for and the federal government of the country they’re now representing.
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