Online feud between Simone Biles and Riley Gaines takes turn with gymnast’s 2017 post resurfacing
“ahhhh good thing guys don’t compete against girls or he’d take all the gold medals !!” the legendary U.S. gymnast wrote in tweet.
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The online war of words between Simone Biles and Riley Gaines exploded over the weekend, with the conservative critic reaching way back and throwing some heat at the gymnastics legend.
In the midst of her ongoing feud over transgender athletes with the U.S. Olympic legend, Gaines apparently did some online digging, finding and reposting a tweet from 2017.
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The post appeared to agree with Gaines’ side of the argument that transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports.
“ahhhh good thing guys don’t compete against girls or he’d take all the gold medals !!” Biles wrote in the 2017 tweet, which apparently was in response to the men’s division results at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. The original tweet that Biles had been responding to has since been deleted.
Gaines, former collegiate swimmer who tied for fifth with transgender athlete Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA women’s swimming championships, also commented on Biles’ post while calling out the gymnast as a hypocrite.
“Oop don’t you hate it when your past self completely undermines your current nonsensical argument?” Gaines wrote on X.
“How has 2025 Simone reconciled with the fact 2017 Simone was a ‘truly sick bully’ by her own standard?”
Biles had referred to Gaines as a “sick bully” for her anti-trans stance last week.
The online beef between the women on Thursday, when Biles, 28, took aim at Gaines, 25, after a trans high-school softball pitcher helped win the Minnesota state championship and went viral.
“@Riley_Gaines_ You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race,” Biles tweeted, referencing Gaines’ tie with Thomas.
“Straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive OR creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender category IN ALL sports!!”
“bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male,” she added later.
Gaines responded to Biles’ comments, calling them “disappointing” and standing behind her opinion.
“This is actually so disappointing. It’s not my job or the job of any woman to figure out how to include men in our spaces,” she wrote.
“You can uplift men stealing championships in women’s sports with YOUR platform.
“Men don’t belong in women’s sports and I say that with my full chest.”
But that’s when Gaines seriously turned up the heat, bringing up Biles’ battle against disgraced U.S. gymnastics doctor and prolific sex criminal Larry Nassar.
“All the horrific sexual abuse @Simone_Biles witnessed and spoke out against caused by one man, yet (she) believes women should be forced to strip naked in front of men to validate the man’s feelings,” Gaines wrote.
“You know how many gold medals you’d have if your ‘inclusive’ dream came true? Zero.”
Biles was involved in taking down Nassar, who is serving up to 175 years in prison for molesting her and hundreds of other female gymnasts.
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