Riley Gaines reacts to feud with Keith Olbermann: ‘He still lives with his mom in her basement’

Riley Gaines has loads of supporters since changing into the face of combating towards organic males in ladies’ and girls’s sports activities. After all, that is include loads of critics, too.

One among her largest is Keith Olbermann, with whom Gaines was in a disagreement on X, previously Twitter, a number of months in the past.

Olbermann mentioned the “silly” and “unsuccessful” Gaines, a 12-time All-American and SEC file holder, “sucked at swimming.”

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It did not cease there, although, as Olbermann referred to as her a “transphone” who “has no repute to break.”

In a video responding to Olbermann’s put up, she recorded herself showing off her trophies for a number of of her accolades, together with All-SEC first-team, three SEC titles, a second-place end nationally, an SEC neighborhood service award, an SEC feminine scholar-athlete of the yr and others. She additionally certified for the U.S. trials for the Tokyo Olympics.

Gaines hopped on Joe Rogan’s podcast this week, and the 2 revisited the barbs she and the previous ESPN and MSNBC host traded.

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“I very proudly completed my profession as a 12-time All-American, a five-time SEC champion, the SEC file holder, SEC scholar athlete of the yr, SEC neighborhood providers chief of the yr, I can hold happening, and it’s like, this senile outdated man needs to assault me? He nonetheless lives together with his mother in her basement. I needed to ask my dad, ‘Who is that this man?’ I don’t even know who he’s,” Gaines mentioned.

Within the video, Gaines really broke a glass trophy, however she mentioned the SEC despatched her a brand new one.

“They’re like, ‘We’re so sorry you needed to waste your time and break a trophy over Keith Olbermann, we needed to ship you a brand new one,’” she mentioned. “No matter, I obtained extra of them. Thanks, Keith Olbermann.”

“My motto is – I really feel like for probably the most half, I just about dwell by this – ‘Don’t punch down. Don’t give somebody consideration when that’s clearly what they’re vying for,’” mentioned Gaines. “However I actually couldn’t resist myself when it got here to him.”

Riley Gaines offers a speech at Penn State. (Riley Gaines)

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Gaines determined to grow to be an advocate for equity in girls’s sports activities shortly after competing towards Thomas within the 2022 nationwide championships.

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