Bears Make Important Decision on Jonathan Owens as Wife Simone Biles Heads to Olympics

Simone Biles will have husband Jonathan Owens at her side as she heads to the Summer Olympic Games in Paris later this summer.

The 27-year-old Biles qualified for the U.S. women's team and is set to compete from July 27 to August 1 -- the same time the Bears will be holding training camp. But as ESPN's Adam Schefter reported, the Bears are allowing Owens to travel overseas to support Biles.

"Bears are granting Jonathan Owens special permission to leave training camp to support his wife at the Olympics," Schefter wrote in a post on X on July 3.

Biles had already shared days ago that Owens would be able to travel with her for at least a portion of her competition.

"The Bears are actually granting him a couple days off from training camp, so he'll be there, yes," Biles said, via NFL.com . "For just a short little time."

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At 27, Biles will be the oldest woman to qualify for the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team since 1950, but said she still feels the drive to compete.

“Nobody’s forcing me to do it,” Biles said, via The Associated Press . “I wake up every day and choose to grind in the gym and come out here and perform for myself. Just to remind myself that I can still do it.”