Next Simone Biles’ Paris Olympic Games win, Vance’s remark about the gymnast after she took a step back at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics also surfaced again.
After Biles withdrew from the competition, the politician called the athlete ‘weak’ in an interview Fox News.
He said: “I think it’s a pretty poor reflection on our species therapeutic society that we try to praise people, not for moments of strength, not for moments of heroism, but for their weakest moments.”
Vance added: “Being an athlete at that level is incredibly tough. A normal response at this point would be, “It’s just a shame she’s going through this. It’s a shame she stopped.’ But what our press has done instead, I think, is turn this into a strangely therapeutic moment. “Let’s praise her for doing this.” And I think that’s really where the problem lies.”
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