Simone Biles Doesn’t Owe You A Performance––She Doesn’t Owe Anyone Anything “Athletes are expected to just compete and shut up. No one cares about them as people, nor their bodily autonomy. This is even truer for Black athletes.”
“If there weren’t a remaining survivor in the sport they would’ve just brushed it to the side,” she said.
Of the women who reported abuse at the hands of Nassar, Biles is the only one who is still actively competing in the sport. After the initial case in 2018, the conversation has faded largely into the background publicly. And based on her commitment toon USA Gymnastics, it has likely cooled in the gymnastics world as well. Even though no one is asking her to continue competing for the sake of keeping the conversation going, it’s clear that she feels a sense of duty to do so.
“I think they’re just gonna try to hide it, sweep it under the rug and hopefully people kind of forgive and forget. Because if it’s not talked about, then they’re like, ‘OK, we can move on,’ ” she told USA Today Sports. “Stuff doesn’t just blow over.”to the systems that hurt them. We are treated poorly every day, by our places of employment, co-workers, and of course by this country. The way people are tearing Simone Biles down right now is a prime example of this.
But that’s the thing. People don’t want to see athletes advocating for themselves. Because that makes them, which somehow ruins the facade of romanticized sports. Society, more specifically in American society, has this “keep pushing” mentality. You’re never supposed to stop moving, you’ll “sleep when you’re dead.” By these standards, athletes should be pushing themselves to the brink because that means they’ve earned whatever recognition they get.
Because she pulled out after a disappointing vault, commenters are drawing comparison to another famous Olympic vault: Kerri Strug’s 1996 gold medal clinching vault where she broke her ankle. Of course, people are trying to use Kerri’s moment to tear Simone down, calling Biles a “quitter” and worse because Strug was competing injured.
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