- Simone Biles spoke about her difficult moment at the Tokyo Olympics this week
- Jason Whitlock said Biles paid too much attention to people on social media
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Jason Whitlock has given a merciless response to Simone Biles after the Olympian explained why she withdrew from the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
Biles appeared on the Call Her Daddy podcast this week, where she admitted that negative attention on social media contributed to her withdrawing from the last Games.
“America hates me. The world is going to hate me. I can only see what they’re saying on Twitter right now,” Biles said. ‘Usually if you go to the Olympics and you fail or whatever, you’ve got people on their couch eating those little chips.
“I thought they were going to ban me from entering the United States, because that’s what they tell you: ‘Don’t come back if it’s not gold.’ Gold or failure. Don’t come back.’
Whitlock responded to the 27-year-old by downplaying her reputation in comparison to Caitlin Clark, who was recently the No. 1 pick in the WNBA Draft by the Indiana Fever.
Simone Biles opened up about her experiences at the Tokyo Olympics earlier this week.
Jason Whitlock has since given a vicious response to some of Biles’ comments.
Simone Biles pretends to be Caitlin Clark and that people really know who she is. She has developed this importance of herself and does things to feel important. pic.twitter.com/ve8Koy1hm3
-Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) April 19, 2024
Whitlock captioned the video, uploaded to X: ‘Simone Biles pretends to be Caitlin Clark and that people really know who she is.
“She has developed this importance of herself and does things to feel important.”
Whitlock then said in the clip: ‘Simeone Biles pretends to be Caitlin Clark and people really know who she is.
‘She is a gymnast and every four years they are relevant for a period of two or three weeks. But Simon Biles could walk past the vast majority of people in an airport and they wouldn’t think twice: “oh, there goes a black girl.” They just wouldn’t think twice.
‘So they build this importance of themselves. And then they start doing things to seem important.
But in the grand scheme of things she’s not important. She didn’t cross the path. When Caitlin Clark goes somewhere, people recognize her. It is not the same for Simeone Biles.
‘It is a byproduct of these young people and this new era in which we live, where Twitter is their reality. It distorts reality.’
Meanwhile, Biles is expected to compete at the US Classic in Hartford, Connecticut, next month.
It is unclear whether he will compete at this year’s Olympics in Paris, where the opening ceremony is scheduled for July 26.