Simone Biles is ‘pretending’ to be as famous as Caitlin Clark and ‘the overwhelming majority’ of America wouldn’t recognize US gymnastics star, Jason Whitlock claims: ‘Oh, there goes a little black girl’
- Simone Biles talked this week about her difficult time at the Olympic Games in Tokyo
- Jason Whitlock said Biles was paying way too much attention to people on social media
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Jason Whitlock has delivered a merciless response to Simone Biles after Olympian opened up about why she pulled out of 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 withdrawal from the last Games.
‘America hates me. The world is going to hate me. Right now I can only see what they’re saying on Twitter,” Biles said. ‘If you go to the Olympics and flop or whatever, you usually get people on the couch eating small chips.
“I thought I was going to be banished from America because that’s what they tell you: ‘Don’t come back if it’s not gold.’ Gold or bust. Do not come back.’
Whitlock responded to the 27-year-old by dismissing her reputation compared to Caitlin Clark, who was recently the first overall pick in the Indiana Fever’s WNBA Draft.
Earlier this week, Simone Biles talked about her experiences at the Olympic Games in Tokyo
Jason Whitlock has since responded mercilessly to some of Biles’ comments
Simone Biles pretends that she is Caitlin Clark and that people actually know who she is. She has built up this importance for herself and does things to make herself feel important. pic.twitter.com/ve8Koy1hm3
— Jason Whitlock (@WhitlockJason) April 19, 2024
Whitlock captioned the video, uploaded to
“She’s built up this importance for herself and does things to make herself 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 two to 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 little black girl’. They just wouldn’t think twice.
“So they build up this importance of themselves. And then they start doing things to make themselves seem important.
“But in the grand scheme of things, she’s not important. She hasn’t crossed the road when Caitlin Clark goes somewhere, people recognize her. It’s not the same for Simeone Biles.
“It’s a byproduct of these young people and this new era we live in where Twitter is their reality. It distorts reality.’
Biles, meanwhile, is expected to compete next month at the US Classic in Hartford, Connecticut.
It is unclear whether she will participate in this year’s Olympic Games in Paris, where the opening ceremony is scheduled for July 26.