Simone Biles Deactivates X Account After Feud With Riley Gaines

Simone Biles‘ X account is gone … the Olympic legend seems to have deactivated it within the wake of a public feud with Riley Gaines.

Simply days after she and the previous All-American swimmer quarreled over the subject of trans athletes’ participation in youth ladies’ sports activities, Biles’ presence on Elon Musk‘s standard platform has disappeared.

Whereas it is unclear if the choice to go away the app had something to do with the Gaines feud … the previous Univ. of Kentucky star definitely appeared to consider it was all associated.

Gaines took to her X web page to write down she thinks Biles deleted the account over the ridicule she obtained for the best way she went after Gaines in the course of the debate over the hot-button sports activities challenge.

“Unhappy to see such a phenom go down like this,” Gaines wrote.

The duo’s beef kicked off in early June, after Gaines criticized a highschool crew for permitting a transgender woman’s participation. Biles known as Gaines “really sick” for having the opinion — earlier than she implored her to search out options to the difficulty.

Biles then later body-shamed Gaines, urging her to “bully somebody your personal measurement, which might satirically be a male.”

Biles went on to apologize.

Regardless of all of the drama, Gaines advised TMZ Sports activities final week she’d nonetheless be right down to crew up with Biles.