Following Simone Biles’ Paris Olympics win, Vance’s remark in regards to the gymnast after stepping again from the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 additionally resurfaced.
After Biles withdrew from the competitors, the politician referred to as the athlete “weak” in an interview with Fox Information.
He stated: “I feel it displays fairly poorly on our type of therapeutic society that we attempt to reward folks not for moments of energy, not for moments of heroism, however for his or her weakest moments.”
Vance added: “Being an athlete at that stage is extremely robust. A standard response on this second could be to say: ‘It’s only a disgrace that she’s going by means of this. It’s a disgrace that she give up.’ However as an alternative, what our press has carried out, I feel, is flip this into this bizarre therapeutic second. ‘Let’s reward her for doing this.’ And I feel that’s actually the place the issue herein lies.”
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