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Nancy Mace's Claim That No One Would Know Simone Biles' Name If Men Competed Against Her Gets Epically Fact-Checked

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After the MAGA Congresswoman tried to insult Olympic gymnast Simone Biles by claiming that biological males would dominate if allowed to compete in women's gymnastics, she was given a swift reality check by men's gymnasts.

South Carolina MAGA Republican Representative Nancy Mace has been making a name for herself by being the most vulgar and vile anti-trans person in Congress. She's screamed transphobic slurs in official committee meetings and attacked anyone who opposes her bigotry.

Now she's decided to take on the most decorated gymnast in history—in women's and men's gymnastics—Simone Biles, who holds the record for the most Olympic and World Championship medals combined. Biles won 41 medals in just those events, surpassing all other gymnasts.


By comparison, the second most decorated gymnast in history, combining Olympic and World Championship medals, is Russian gymnast Larisa Latynina, who has a total of 32 Olympic and World Championship medals from 1954-1964. The third is Russian gymnast Nikolai Andrianov who won 27 medals from 1972-1980.

Despite Biles absolute dominance in the sport, Mace told her on X:

"Honey, if biological men competed in women’s gymnastics, odds are no one would know your name."
 
 

Asked to weigh in by HuffPost, two-time All-American NCAA men's gymnast Samuel Phillips stated:

"[People like Mace] clearly don’t watch or know about the sport of gymnastics."

He added:

"What makes gymnastics unique is that men’s and women’s gymnastics are realistically two different sports. It’s not like track and field or swimming where you have men and women perform the same distance races within the same length pool or track."
"These are two different sports with completely different events and skills. The only shared events are floor and vault, while the men have the pommel horse, rings, parallel bars and high bar and the women have uneven bars and beam."

Phillips then cited four-time NCAA champion Ian Gunther who had weighed in as well.

Gunther went further, making the point that while men can't compete with Simone Biles in her gymnastics events of beam and parallel bars, Biles could give men a run for their money on the floor exercise and vault.

Gunther had created a number of videos of male gymnasts trying to complete women's gymnastics core skills almost three years before Mace's latest nonsense.

A simple Google search would have shown Mace how wrong her attack on Biles was.

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Gunther even has a video of Biles going head to head with himself and other male gymnasts.

If Mace missed Gunther's videos, she could have referred to UK Olympic medalist Nile Wilson's series exploring the same topic.

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Wilson—again, an Olympic medalist—also has a series of videos on Facebook where he tries to complete Biles' skills or routines.


While others don't have the credentials of Phillips, Gunther, or Wilson, plenty of people weighed in on Mace's latest attention grab.

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Mace has been getting a lot of pushback lately over the sincerity of her transphobic campaign.

In May, Mace's staff members revealed the South Carolina MAGA ran a bot army and forced staffers to run fake social media accounts to praise her online and interact with her posts to boost her profile.

Given her claims of supporting the LGBTQ+ community as recently as 2021, critical thinkers speculate Mace will say or do anything just to garner attention.

There's a phrase for that...

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