Before we start, a content note.

This episode contains accounts of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and racism.

You'll also hear some swearing.

I think it's going to be a pretty spectacular night.

This was the sound outside of the Gold Over America tour when it stopped in Houston, Texas.

It's going to be pretty awesome because these are some of the people who have been on the Olympic team for a couple years.

So, and we've seen them level up while we've been leveling up in our gymnastics, too.

So that'd be pretty cool.

Gold Over America was the 2021 post-Olympics gymnastics tour.

And outside of the arena, little kids, mostly girls,

were dressed in matching gymnastics club shirts or sparkly gold leotards.

They were vibrating with excitement.

I came to see Simone Byles.

Yeah.

What do you think this show is going to be like?

Gold.

Amazing.

Yeah.

So amazing.

I'm not going to lie. I wasn't dressed in a leotard, but I was pretty damn excited too.

I'm Amira Rose Davis. I'm a professor and podcaster, and I study the intersection of race, gender, sports, and politics.

Black women athletes in particular, like Simone Biles, are right up my alley. So when I

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