Simone Biles is too busy shining to worry about body-shaming trolls
Olympics glory is particularly strange for stars in the field of women's gymnastics, where the best performers are often teenagers who are thrust into the bubbling cauldron of overnight fame at an impossibly young age.
Gabby Douglas learned this the hard way in Rio de Janeiro. Now Simone Biles, the American star who supplanted Douglas this summer, has a message for her own critics.
Fresh off winning four gold medals and a bronze in the 2016 Olympics, Biles was named "female athlete of the year" this week by the Associated Press. But that apparently hasn't stopped some from denigrating, of all things, her appearance.
Biles recently shared a message for those critics via Twitter.
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Now, who exactly is Biles rebutting? It's not worth amplifying the voices of a few miserable trolls.
But good on Biles for sharing a message her many young fans will hopefully take to heart.
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Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.
