Simone Biles' Family Shares How They Celebrated Her Medal-Winning Spree at the Paris Olympics (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

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What better way to celebrate your daughter winning four medals at theParis Olympicsthan a dinner cruise down the Seine?

Biles' mom,Nellie Biles, speaking to PEOPLE on Aug. 4, says that the plan was “to eat and toast” to their champion — “We’ll just talk and talk and relive the whole thing,” she says — though “not with Simone, unfortunately.”

“She still goes back to the [Olympic] Village,” Nellie explains, adding that Simone would be stacked up with press obligations on Monday night.

(Left-right) Jonathan Owens, Nellie Biles and Ronald Biles cheer on Simone Biles during the team final at the 2024 Paris Olympics.David Niviere/ABACA PRESS/Splash News

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At that point, they’d only been able to see Simone off the competition floor once so far, at a brief celebration aftershe and Team USA secured gold in the team final. And they “FaceTime and chat, pretty much on a daily basis,” her mom says.

But on Tuesday, she’ll finally get to see her daughter for some one-on-one time, “and that’ll be good,” Nellie says with a big smile.

That’s when Nellie, along with Simone’s dad Ronald Biles, her sister Adria Biles and more of their family, can finally sit down and recap the gymnast’s record-breaking week, which included golds in the team, all-around and vault finals, and a silver medal in the floor final. Simone did all of that while leading the “Golden Girls” of Team USA —Suni Lee, 21,Jordan Chiles, 23,Jade Carey, 24, andHezly Rivera, 16 — and being an advocate for mental health.

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“Those times were really dark and stressful times,“Nellie says of Tokyo. “To work through that and be in this place where she enjoys doing what she wants … this is rewriting her story. It’s rewriting it on her terms because she is in this place that she really perhaps wished she would have been for years.”

Simone Biles after winning the all-around final.Pascal Le Segretain/Getty

Pascal Le Segretain/Getty

“It’s just been an unbelievable week,” she says. “I know we came here with our own expectations, but the expectation was whatever, we do want her to medal, but not putting any stipulations on what medals that she will get. And I mean, three golds — we’re just elated.”

source: people.com