Simone Biles sported a Inexperienced Bay Packers jacket to look at her husband, NFL security, Jonathan Owens play with the Chicago Bears in a preseason recreation.
Contemporary from the 2024 Paris Olympics, 27-year-old Biles arrived at Chicago’s Soldier Area on Saturday, August 17, to help Owens, 29, and the Bears as they performed in opposition to the Cincinnati Bengals.
Biles shared a photograph through her Instagram Story of her recreation day outfit, which consisted of an outsized jacket depicting black and white photographs of Owens in his No. 34 jersey, which he wore when he performed for the Inexperienced Bay Packers. Owens performed for the Packers in 2023 earlier than signing a two-year contract with the Bears, their longtime NFL rivals, in March 2024.
The Olympian accomplished her outfit with a black bodysuit she paired with a black Prada bucket hat and one black and white Nike sneaker. In a Boomerang shared through her Instagram Story, Biles wore a black ankle boot on her left foot resulting from a calf harm she sustained on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Biles tweaked her calf throughout flooring train warmups on July 28 forward of the all-around gymnastics qualifiers whereas making an attempt to land her triple-double. Laurie Hernandez, Olympics commentator and Staff USA alum, famous that Biles had “landed bizarre” whereas working towards the stunt. Biles, for her half, carried out her flooring routine with a taped-up calf and took house a silver medal for Girls’s Flooring – Inventive Gymnastics. (Biles received 4 medals total on the Paris Video games: one silver and three gold.)
“It’s simply precautionary, ensuring, as a result of we nonetheless have [a] tour after this to heal up and all of that stuff. So, just a bit little bit of soreness,” Biles stated of the medical boot in an interview with NBC’s Mike Tirico on August 5. She additionally added that her calf “is nice.”
“I really feel like elite athletes are fairly robust, so we’re simply, by ache or pleasure, we’re prepared for no matter,” Biles informed Tirico, 57, as they watched footage of the autumn. “So primarily, what you’re seeing right here is, I used to be simply making an attempt to over-rotate for good measure, and I did simply that and nearly knocked [coach Laurent Landi] on out. However it was good.”
Owens gushed over his “warrior” spouse in a Chicago Bears press convention on August 6 in Chicago. Earlier than coaching camp, Owens had been in Paris to help Biles whereas she competed for Staff USA.
“Clearly, the primary day when she had the harm to her calf and simply her skill to persevere by that and go on the market and nonetheless dominate is simply superb to look at,” he stated. “Her resilience, and when she did resolve to come back again she completed every part that she set her thoughts to. Simply having the ability to witness every single day, the coaching you undergo.”