Simone Biles was all smiles whereas posing with not one, not two, however all 11 of her Olympic medals.
“6 12 months outdated me can be proud 🥹🤎🤞🏾,” Biles, 27, wrote through Instagram on Tuesday, August 27, alongside a photograph of her playfully biting down on one in every of her gold medals.
Within the collection of snaps, Biles rocked a white gown as she sat on the ground alongside her awards. Biles additionally shared a close-up shot of her medals, which she received on the 2016 Rio Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 2024 Paris Olympics.
Biles made her Olympics debut in Rio de Janeiro at age 19. She obtained her first gold medals within the particular person all-around, vault and ground finals, a bronze medal on the stability beam and a gold medal as a part of Crew USA.
Biles secured extra medals on the Tokyo Olympics, incomes a bronze for stability beam and a silver within the staff all-around ultimate. Biles, nevertheless, pulled out of a number of occasions as a result of “twisties” and took a two-year hiatus from competitions to deal with her psychological well being.
“I simply felt like it might be a bit bit higher to take a again seat, work on my mindfulness,” Biles mentioned in a press convention in 2021. “And I knew that the ladies would do a completely nice job. And I didn’t need to danger the staff a medal for form of my screwups, as a result of they’ve labored manner too laborious for that. So I simply determined that these ladies have to go and do the remainder of our competitors.”
She in the end made a triumphant return on the 2024 Paris Olympics, taking residence three gold medals for her routines within the particular person all-around, ladies’s vault and staff all-around. Biles additionally received silver within the ground train ultimate.
Simone Biles is small in stature — simply 4-foot-8 — however her status looms giant. The Texas native began taking gymnastics courses at age 6 and earned an invitation to the junior nationwide staff camp by 14. She had a number of world championship gold medals earlier than she made her Olympics debut in Rio de Janeiro at […]
Biles is now the most embellished American gymnast in historical past. Whereas she’s nonetheless absorbing her wins from Paris, Biles defined that she isn’t prepared to consider what’s on the horizon.
“You guys actually gotta cease asking athletes what’s subsequent after they win a medal on the Olympics,” she wrote through X earlier this month. “Allow us to take in the second we’ve labored our complete lives for.”
Hours earlier than her social media add, Biles was requested throughout a press convention whether or not she had her eyes set on the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
“Is that this my final? Positively [my final] Yurchenko double pike. I imply, I kinda nailed that one,” she quipped. “The following Olympics is at residence [in Los Angeles]. So, you simply by no means know. However, I get actually outdated.”
