Four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles said it “broke my heart” to see a young Black girl passed over for a medal at a gymnastics ceremony in Ireland, footage of which has gone viral.
In the video of a GymStart event from March 2022, which has recirculated on social media in recent days, a line of girls are presented with medals but the lone Black girl isn’t given one. “When this video was circulating, her parents reached out,” Biles said on X, formerly Twitter. “It broke my heart to see, so I sent her a little video. There is no room for racism in any sport or at all.
“A written apology provided by the identified individual has since been issued to the competitor and her family,” the statement said. Speaking anonymously to The Irish Independent last week, the mother said that the complaint had not been settled and the apology was not “genuine.” “We are often the only Black family at gymnastics events and this has been very hurtful for us,” the mother is quoted as saying in the story. “Now eight million people have seen the video.
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