By DJ 33 1/3
Jul 28, 2021
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Following Simone Biles pulling out of the women’s team competition, a number of conservative media figures attacked her for supposedly being a “quitter” and “selfish sociopath” who had brought “shame on her country.”
Without Biles Team USA eventually won the silver medal.
“I know that this Olympic Games, I wanted it to be for myself,” a tearful Biles said afterward. “I came here, and I felt like I was still doing it for other people. So that just hurts my heart that doing what I love has been kind of taken away from me to please other people.”