Simone Biles Shares Candid Throwbacks from Her ‘Blessed' Olympics Journey Throughout the Years

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Simone Biles posted a series of photos and videos to her Instagram Stories to celebrate Olympic Day
The 11-time Olympic medalist posted photos from her time at the 2016, 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Paris, respectively
She also included several photos alongside her teammates throughout the years: Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez, Gabby Douglas, Madison Kocian, Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee and Grace McCallum, Jade Carey and Hezly RiveraSimone Biles is celebrating Olympic Day with a trip down memory lane!
On Monday, June 23, the 11-time Olympic medalist, 28, shared a series of Instagram Stories to commemorate Olympic Day, which celebrates the 1948 revival of the games after the last Olympic Games were held in Paris on June 23, 1894.
Her first clip was a sweet video of Biles and now-retired Olympians Aly Raisman and Laurie Hernandez celebrating the news that they made it to the 2016 Olympic team. She followed up the video with two photos alongside Raisman, Hernandez, Gabby Douglas and Madison Kocian, from the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
The next slide included three photos of the 2016 Team USA, also known as the 'Final Five,' scoring their team gold medal. One photo included the girls jumping for joy together, and another of them standing beside each other on the podium with their gold medals.
Biles then shared a few snaps from the next Summer Olympics, the 2020 Tokyo Games. She added photos of her with production crews, who wore protective masks during COVID-19.
The gold medalist also posted a photo with her 2020 team, known as the "Fighting Four,' Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee and Grace McCallum, posing with their silver medals.
She added another image from the 2020 Games, with a photo of her bronze medal with coaches Cecile Canqueteau-Landi and Laurent Landi. She earned the bronze medal on the balance beam.
The athlete then included another video of her and Team USA learning they qualified for the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. She was joined by Chiles, Lee, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera — they would later be referred to as the 'Golden Girls.'
Biles shared a cute video of the girls cheering with one another, and later added more images of the group celebrating their team's gold medal victory.
The superstar athlete included a video of her on the vault, executing the difficult 'Biles II' — which is also known as the Yurchenko double pike, and includes a cartwheeling approach to the vault. That Paris vault performance earned her a gold medal, and she became the second woman, after Věra Čáslavská, to win two Olympic vault titles.
Along with the videos of her performance, she added adorable snaps of her friends and family sporting her gold medal.
The seven-time gold medal winner added a video of a group of people in a Parisian restaurant chanting 'USA' in celebration of the team's wins. Biles then added a snap of her with all of her medals from the 2024 games: three gold medals for her performances on all-around and vault and the Team USA win, as well as one silver medal for floor exercise.
'okay I'm done, so blessed to go to 3 olympic games with team usa,' she wrote atop a video of the Eiffel Tower sparkling in the night sky.
She then concluded the Instagram Stories with a photo of Dr. Marcia Faustin helping Biles with an injury on the sidelines. 'She is beauty, she is grace. Dr. Marcia saved my lifeeeee.'
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While Biles is grateful for her journey at the past three Olympic games, she hasn't confirmed if she will perform at the 2028 Olympics, which will be held in Los Angeles.
"So never say never," Biles said during a Saturday, Aug. 3, press conference at Bercy Arena. "The home Games — the next Olympics is at home, so you just never know. But I am getting really old."
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