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Video of JD Vance Talking About Simone Biles Withdrawing From Tokyo Olympics Resurfaces

by Bradley Cortright
July 31, 2024 at 3:24 pm
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Video of JD Vance Talking About Simone Biles Withdrawing From Tokyo Olympics Resurfaces

RENO, NEVADA - JULY 30: RENO, NEVADA - JULY 30: Republican vice presidential nominee U.S. Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) speaks at a campaign rally at the Reno Sparks Convention Center on July 30, 2024 in Reno, Nevada. Vance is traveling to cities across the Southwest to attend rallies this week. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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A video of Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), the Republican vice presidential nominee, speaking about Olympic gymnast Simone Biles withdrawing from the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

“Well, I think, obviously, it’s understandable that she was going through an incredible amount of pressure,” Vance said at the time.

He went on, “What I find so weird about this — and it reflects on the media more than it does on Simone Biles — is that we’ve tried to turn a very tragic moment — Simone Biles quitting the Olympic team — into this act of heroism. And I think it reflects pretty poorly on our sort of therapeutic society that we try to praise people not for moments of strength, not for moments of heroism, but for their weakest moments.”

Watch the video below:

Remember when JD Vance called Simone Biles weak when she withdrew from the Tokyo Olympics?

Why do these Republican men hate women so much?pic.twitter.com/WRClQiRe7k

— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) July 31, 2024

“Being an athlete at that level is incredibly tough. A normal response in this moment would be to say, ‘It’s just a shame that she’s going through this. It’s a shame that she quit,’ but instead, what our press has done, I think, is turn this into this weird therapeutic moment. ‘Let’s praise her for doing this.’ And I think that’s really where the problem herein lies,” Vance added.

The video surfaced after Biles won her fifth gold medal and led the U.S. gymnastics team to a win in the finals of the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Her win comes three years after the U.S. team won a silver medal as Biles withdrew from the team after she experienced the “twisties.”

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