Simone Biles DELETES social media account in wake of transgender athlete feud with Riley Gaines

Three weeks after sparking a war of words with anti-trans activist Riley Gaines, apologizing for her targeted remarks, and being inundated with comments about the incident since, seven-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles has deleted her account on X, formerly Twitter.

Biles de-activated her account, which had nearly two million followers, after she came to the defense of a transgender high school athlete that Gaines had been attacking.

But after Biles personally insulted Gaines (for which she later apologized), it opened up a flood gate of attacks which appears to have led the 28-year-old gymnast - considered the greatest of all time - to remove her account on the platform.

Biles still has her accounts on Threads (with 2.1m followers) and Instagram (12.4m followers) active.

Gaines decided to deliver a parting shot to the gymnast, despite saying just yesterday that she'd be interested in forming an alliance with her. 

Gaines claimed that Biles '-has an incredibly unpopular and morally indefensible take - gets rightfully ridiculed for it - issues a groveling public apology after unrelenting backlash - deletes account to pretend it never happened'.

Gaines, who made a career out of politically advocating against trans people in sports after finishing tied for fifth with a trans woman at a swim meet, concluded, 'Sad to see such a phenom go down like this'.

Earlier this month, Gaines attacked a Minnesota high school on social media for fielding a softball team with a trans player.

Biles snapped, lashing out at Gaines and calling her views 'truly sick', before getting personal and telling her to 'bully someone your own size, which would ironically be male'. 

A few days later, Biles apologized to Gaines. While Gaines accepted the apology at the time, she continued to criticize Biles for her views and opinion - all while using the abuse Biles suffered at the hands of Larry Nassar in defense of her own position.

Biles hasn't addressed any of the comments that Gaines has made against her after the apology and hasn't addressed the reason for her account deletion on any other social media platforms.

With the onslaught of negative remarks directed at her after she went after Gaines, a former Olympic gymnastics teammate of Biles' has come to the forefront with accusations.

MyKayla Skinner - who notably said that the US Olympic team in last summer's games in Paris lacked quality outside of Biles - accused the Texas native of bullying.

Skinner's comments about the team's quality came before three USA Olympic gymnasts other than Biles - Jade Carey, Sunisa Lee, and Jordan Chiles - all won Olympic medals (Chiles medal was later overturned on appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport).

After the war of words with Gaines began, Skinner claimed that there were 'many times' in her career where she felt 'belittled and bullied by Simone'.