JUST IN: Simone Biles finally reveals 10 secrets behide her gymnastics success and Multimillion Dollar endorsement deal with see more š šĀ
JUST IN: Simone Biles finally reveals 10 secrets behide her gymnastics success and Multimillion Dollar endorsement deal with see more š šĀ ļæ¼ U.S. gymnast Simone Biles plans to announce a $4 million donation to the 2024 Kamala Harris-Tim Walz presidential ticket. in the last few days of the 2024 Paris Olympics, a post onĀ X…
JUST IN: Simone Biles finally reveals 10 secrets behide her gymnastics success and Multimillion Dollar endorsement deal with see more š šĀ
U.S. gymnast Simone Biles plans to announce a $4 million donation to the 2024 Kamala Harris-Tim Walz presidential ticket.
in the last few days of the 2024 Paris Olympics, a post onĀ X (formerly Twitter)Ā alleged that Team USAās Simone Biles, often considered the most talented gymnast in the world, was going to announce a $4 million donation to the U.S. presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. The post was immediately popular, gaining over 87,000 likes at the same timeĀ users sharedĀ theĀ supposed newsĀ toĀ Facebook.
Many readers asked Snopes to check into the claim.
Despite the original X post citing āa source at Sports Illustratedā for its information, Snopes found no evidence suggesting Biles planned to make a donation to the Harris campaign at all, especially not one for $4 million.
Furthermore, the post only claimed Biles was going to āformally announceā her donation, not that she hadĀ alreadyĀ donated. Since this wording only implies that Biles will, but has not yet, donated money to the Harris campaign, applying a cut-and-dry ātrueā or āfalseā label to the claim becomes impossible. As such, we have rated this claim āUnfounded.ā
Itās also important to note that making a $4 million donation directly to any political campaign would be illegal under federal law. According to theĀ Federal Elections Commission (FEC) website, individuals are allowed to donate up to $3,300 to an individual candidate every election. Higher donation limits apply if the donation is to a Political Action Committee (PAC) or a political party, and only Super PACs, which are banned from contributing directly to political campaigns themselves, can accept an unlimited amount of money.
Federal law also dictates that every donation to a political campaign must be tracked and recorded with the FEC. Although the exact wording of the claim suggested that Biles had not yet donated, we still searched the FECāsĀ campaign finance databaseĀ for donations made by āSimone Bilesā out of due diligence.
We found no results from 2023 and 2024, meaning that Biles had not made any political donations since the beginning of 2023.
Further placing the claim into doubt is how much money Biles actually has.Ā SeveralĀ articlesĀ claimed that Biles was worth $25 million, citing the figure to the websiteĀ CelebrityNetWorth.com. While Snopes could not independently confirm that figure, Biles earned around $10 million inĀ 2022Ā and $7.1 million inĀ 2023, according to Forbes. As such, we felt that $25 million would be a reasonable estimate of Bilesā net worth.
However, quick math on that figure shows that a $4 million donation was about 16% of her total net worth. Although not impossible (again thatās why we rated this claim āUnfounded,ā), we found it highly improbable that Biles would donate 16% of her net worth in one swoop.
The four-time U.S. Olympian may have made a mistake when she made a TikTok with some of her teammates, and social media users were quick to notice. If you havenāt seen it yet, prepare to be shocked. This is truly revolutionary
Biles is only the fourth American gymnast to compete in the Olympics, but she is already considered one of the greatest gymnasts of all time. But it seems sheās not very good at keeping her sporting secrets under wraps after a simple TikTok video of her went viral, exposing a well-kept secret.
The 27-year-oldās TikTok was then created by fellow gymnast Jan GĆ¼nther and he posts sports-related content on the social media app every day. He begins by explaining that the athlete has revealed āthe biggest secret in gymnasticsā as a āgymnastics spotterā can be seen in the background of the video in question.
This is news that is sure to shake up the sports world, as Gunther goes on to explain that these spotters, dressed head to toe in green, train rigorously for months to help gymnasts maintain their positions by correcting them without being noticed ā apparently because the color green can be overlooked on TV, and the people in the arena are blind. Itās no wonder they manage to pull off all the moves and flips they try.
GĆ¼nther even revealed footage of the little green men warming up, finally confirming the rumor, while (not so secret) footage was also released of US gymnastics coach Laurent Landy talking to onlookers. \ āGood luck today, be safe, be sure to protect our athletes and do not see,ā he asked for observers.
If you have already realized that all the videos are a parody, ridiculing those who doubt the gymnast and emphasizing how difficult sport is. āAll the gymnastics you see are actually impossible, and theyāre all performed by observers,ā Gunther explained sarcastically.
Apparently (not really), the little green men train for āmonthsā to make the performance āas realistic as possibleā without being visible. Gunter explains that because spectators want gymnasts to do more ādifficultā things on the floor, professionals have no choice but to hire spotters.
Viewers took to the comments section to joke about the āreveal.ā One user joked, āAnd I wonder if the people watching this in person are watching them or something?ā
A second wrote, āAs a gymnast this is true and they help me every day.ā
A third pointed out, āJust kidding.ā
Another user said, āAs a gymnast I can assure you, there was a big scandal a few years ago at a competition where a spotter pushed a girl he was already dating off the beam, but she replaced the girl with another spotter.