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Gymnast Simone Biles has many achievements, with gold, bronze, and silver medals in her treasure. Simone has won Gymnastics Championships three times in a row. After taking a break from her professional life, Simone is busy with her upcoming wedding. But trolls are unsatisfied without trolling her on social media for many years.

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In 2017, Simone entered in Texans cheerleader group and became the first honorary member. She shared her picture on Instagram and wrote, “I had such an amazing experience cheering at the Texans Game. Definitely, a memory to last forever!”

How Simone Biles deals with the hateful comment

According to Refinery 29, some followers praised Simone Biles and commented with love emojis. Meanwhile, some users wrote negative comments. Simone got affected by some of the comments and tweeted a brave response.

 

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Biles tweeted and wrote, “I have 1 question to everyone commenting about my hair when I genuinely look happy in the photo? Do you look perfect ALL the time? everything in perfect order.?” Seeing this, Simones’ fans started retweeting in her defense.

This showed people on the internet do not care about anyone. All these hateful comments can make someone frustrated and conscious about themselves.

Affect on Simones’ Professional life

Being a gymnast, Simone focuses on the competitions and practices, not her critique. But her past has taught her to fight alone with negativity.

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Simone again used her intelligent mind to deal with this comment. She tweeted, “Talk to me when you train for 14 years and earn 5 Olympic Medals,” She added, “I think kids would say otherwise. My year off is well deserved! Take a couple of seats.”

Also, she shared the screenshot of the tweet and wrote, “Comments like this have me shook. I wanted to blur her name out so she doesn’t get attention. but it is what it is….”

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These trollers also trolled her in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, when she withdrew her name from the Olympics, Deputy attorney general of Texas Aaron Reitz called her an embarrassment. He wrote on Twitter and called her a “Childish national embarrassment.”

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But after some time, he deleted his tweet and apologized. Then, in 2021, Simone shared her concern about the negativity around her through trolls. She wrote, “It’s really sad. I hope they never go or have gone through some of the same things.”

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Simones’ replies have won so many hearts. But these trollers should also understand how it can affect an athlete’s life.