There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
Her medals, fame and fortune won — presumably fairly — Simone Biles now has an international forum to advocate for unfair play, aka cheating.
Biles last week publicly trash-tweeted unabashed fair-play advocate Riley Gaines for her front-and-center activism to rid girls and women’s sports of former males increasingly competing as women in winning formerly level-fielded competitions.
Gold medalist Simone Biles of Team United States celebrates on the podium during the medal ceremony for the Artistic Gymnastics Women’s Vault Final on day eight of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 3, 2024. Getty ImagesGaines — having tied for fifth in the 2022 NCAA women’s swimming championships with Penn’s Lia Thomas, a 6-foot-1 trans who previously was an also-ran when she swam on Penn’s men’s team — blew her whistle on behalf of other talented, trained and fully committed female athletes who have and continue to suffer a similar fate.
