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Simone Biles Gushes Her 6-Year-Old Self Would Be ‘Proud’ While Posing With Her 11 Olympic Medals
By Ryan Hudgins,
3 hours ago
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Simone Biles was all smiles while posing with not one, not two, but all 11 of her Olympic medals.
“6 year old me would be proud 🥹🤎🤞🏾,” Biles, 27, wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, August 27, alongside a photo of her playfully biting down on one of her gold medals.
In the series of snaps, Biles rocked a white dress as she sat on the floor alongside her awards. Biles also shared a close-up shot of her medals, which she won at the 2016 Rio Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 2024 Paris Olympics .
Biles made her Olympics debut in Rio de Janeiro at age 19. She received her first gold medals in the individual all-around, vault and floor finals, a bronze medal on the balance beam and a gold medal as part of Team USA.
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Biles secured additional medals at the Tokyo Olympics, earning a bronze for balance beam and a silver in the team all-around final. Biles, however, pulled out of several events due to the “twisties” and took a two-year hiatus from competitions to focus on her mental health.
“I just felt like it would be a little bit better to take a back seat, work on my mindfulness," Biles said in a press conference in 2021. "And I knew that the girls would do an absolutely great job. And I didn't want to risk the team a medal for kind of my screwups, because they've worked way too hard for that. So I just decided that those girls need to go and do the rest of our competition."
She ultimately made a triumphant return at the 2024 Paris Olympics, taking home three gold medals for her routines in the individual all-around, women’s vault and team all-around. Biles also won silver in the floor exercise final.
“You guys really gotta stop asking athletes what’s next after they win a medal at the Olympics,” she wrote via X earlier this month. “Let us soak up the moment we’ve worked our whole lives for.”
Hours before her social media upload, Biles was asked during a press conference whether she had her eyes set on the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
“Is this my last? Definitely [my final] Yurchenko double pike. I mean, I kinda nailed that one,” she quipped. “The next Olympics is at home [in Los Angeles]. So, you just never know. But, I am getting really old.”
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