Simone Biles isn't the first athlete to become fodder for the culture war, but the response to her withdrawal exposes the larger separation between the sport itself and the criticism of it.
complained that Biles’s decision allowed Russia to take gold. “We are raising a generation of weak people like Simone Biles,” he said. “Simone Biles just showed the rest of the nation that when things get tough, you shatter into a million pieces.”contemplated what motivated the outburst of condemnation.
,” few, if any, complaints mentioned her connection to the abuse scandal in elite gymnastics. In 2018, Biles said she was one of the many victims ofthe former USA Gymnastics doctor who pleaded guilty to multiple counts related to child pornography and criminal sexual conduct. As
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