Kearns • She just doesn’t know how Miley Cyrus does it. That’s her go-to analogy, because after all, she’s just 18. It’s how she explains going from being just another giddy teenager to someone strangers on the street stopped to talk to or took pictures of. When you become a face of Olympic news coverage, this is what follows. Instant fame. Instant reality. That became Maame Biney’s life.
She’s learning. It takes time, because now, closing in on a year since she burst onto the international scene as the bubbly American short-track speedskater who also became first African-American woman to ever skate for Team USA at an Olympics, this how it is.