The annual ESPY awards went down in Los Angeles Wednesday night, that sports love-fest whose acronym spells out the “Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Awards” and is sponsored by the ever-woke, formerly sports-oriented network ESPN.
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The gymnast who until recently was America’s darling and a symbol of perseverance, 11-time Olympic medal winner Simone Biles, won the award for “Best Championship Performance” for her 2024 Olympics all-around gold medal performance. She couldn’t help but throw in some divisive rhetoric into her acceptance speech, however:
“That was very unexpected, especially in a category of all men. So thank you guys so much,” she said with a laugh.
ESPN of course loved the moment:
Simone Biles is HER ⭐ pic.twitter.com/UlxxGdSryf
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) July 17, 2025
“Simone Biles is HER.” What exactly does that even mean? Clearly, they think demeaning female athletes is something to be celebrated.
It may have seemed like an innocuous joke, and