Simone Biles apologizes to Riley Gaines
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When it comes to competing in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, Simone Biles isn’t ruling it out just yet. The seven-time Olympic gold medalist, 28, opened up about the topic while discussing her Simone Biles Rising docuseries at Netflix’s FYC event alongside executive producer and director Katie Walsh in Hollywood on Monday,
Katie Walsh also details how she protected the athlete’s mental wellbeing during filming and the challenges of “making a movie when you don’t know the ending.”
Gaines -- a former University of Kentucky swimmer vehemently opposed to trans participation in women's sports -- unearthed a nearly decade-old tweet that the gymnastics icon posted in which she appeared to agree with Gaines' stance.
Gaines — a former swimmer at the University of Kentucky — became a public figure in 2022, when she argued against the inclusion of transgender women participating in women's sports after she tied for fifth with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas at a meet.