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Simone Biles is reflecting on a successful 2023 and looking forward to an exciting year ahead. The seven-time Olympic medalist recently won the gold medal in the women’s all-around final at the World Championships, marking her return to competition after a two-year break.

In an interview with PEOPLE, Biles expressed her gratitude for the opportunity to compete again: “It honestly feels amazing to return to competition, I never thought I would compete again so this is a blessing.”

Biles also shared her favorite moment from her recent competitions, saying, “My favorite moment has been competing alongside my WCC teammates.” She has been a strong supporter of her fellow gymnasts and has enjoyed the camaraderie of being part of a team.

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Aside from her accomplishments on the gymnastics floor, Biles is also passionate about fashion. She has been working with athletic-wear company Athleta for over two years and finds their partnership incredibly meaningful.

Biles explained: “This campaign is so special because it focuses on me as a person and not just as an athlete. The campaign ethos is ‘No Time Like the Present’ which is so important to think about this time of year.”

Simone loves the Holiday season

The holiday season holds a special place in Biles’ heart, and she plans to spend it with her loved ones. She emphasized the importance of slowing down and being present during this time. “The holidays can be hectic but this is a reminder to slow down, be present and really take in this special time of year”, she says.

To prioritize her well-being during the busy season, Biles intends to practice self-compassion and ensure she gets enough rest. She also values the support of her family, friends, and her dogs, who bring her joy and lift her up.

Biles’ love for fashion is evident on her Instagram, where she often shares photos of her stylish outfits. Whether she’s braving the cold at Lambeau Field or enjoying a night out, Biles knows how to dress for the occasion.

The Biles family, known for their triumphs and joyful celebrations, encountered a concerning moment as Baby Ronni Louise BilesSimone Biles’ beloved niece, recently experienced a harrowing health scare.

The infant, who became the apple of Simone’s eye since her arrival a year ago, necessitated urgent medical attention when she threw up blood.

Sammi BilesRonni’s mother and Simone’s sister-in-law, shared the alarming incident on Instagram. Alongside a photo of a T-shirt stained with blood marks, Sammi recounted the frightening ordeal, revealing that Ronni had run a low-grade fever before the concerning episode.

Expressing gratitude for Ronni’s well-being after seeking medical help, Sammi highlighted the terrifying moments that no parent is prepared for.

The family knows how to overcome the setbacks

The Biles family celebrated Ronni’s birth on November 25, 2022, and Simone embraced her role as aunt with joy, expressing her eagerness to spoil her niece.

Simone Biles

In a July Q&A session on Instagram, Simone and her husband Jonathan Owens hinted at their plans for a family, playfully disagreeing on the ideal number of children.

While Simone has been conquering the world of gymnastics, her personal life has faced recent challenges. Two weeks ago, it was revealed that Baby Ronni tested positive for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), adding to a series of health concerns within the family.

Ron Biles IIRonni’s father, underwent a second hip surgery due to avascular necrosis, while Simone was engrossed in World Championship pursuits.

Hope keeps the Biles up

Despite the challenges, Sammi expressed hope for Ronni’s upcoming first birthday, stating, “I just hope & pray Ronni has a safe + simple yet VERY special 1st birthday in November. She deserves it.”

The family, known for their resilience, now awaits further updates on Baby Ronni’s health while Simone deals with additional struggles on the home front, managing the health of her fur-babies.

In the midst of victories and struggles, Simone Biles continues to navigate the complexities of both her professional and personal life with unwavering determination.

Coco Gauff emerged as the highest-earning female athlete in 2023, raking in $22.7 million. She trumped tennis stars like Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka and other athletes like Simone Biles and Eileen Gu to get the coveted position. The American had the best season of her career and her on-court and off-court earnings prove it.

Gauff’s $22 million+ fortune includes her prize money and endorsement earnings. It also accounts for any bonuses, royalties, and investment returns, before taxes. She made $6.7 million on the court while her brand deals got her $16 million, as per Sportico. Only third-placed Gu, with $20 million in endorsements, made more off the field than the 19-year-old.

In 2023, Gauff won her maiden WTA 500, WTA 1000, and Grand Slam titles. Not only did this propel her to a career-best World No.3, but it also resulted in a burgeoning prize purse. Her US Open triumph made her $3 million richer, while she minted an additional million in the last two tournaments of the season. Overall, she took home $6,669,622 as prize money this year, over half of her total career prize winnings (WTA).

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Ever since her debut in 2018, Gauff has been a target for marketers. American tennis has long been searching for a successor to Serena Williams, not just in terms of on-court achievements, but also as a globally marketable superstar. Even at 15, Gauff had contracts with equipment sponsor Head, apparel sponsor New Balance and Italian pasta giant Barilla. All those deals still stand today, although with much bigger numbers.

As her prowess grew on the court over the years, Gauff became more attractive for endorsements and brand deals. Big-name companies like Bose, UPS, accounting firm Baker Tilly, Microsoft, and Rolex have agreements with her. The teenager’s value received an immense boost after she won the US Open. She recently also did promotional campaigns for Ray-Ban and The Marvels movie.

Fans react to Coco Gauff being the highest-earning female athlete in 2023

Coco Gauff capped off a great season with the crown of the highest-earning female athlete of 2023. Fans on X (formerly Twitter) reacted to the news and hailed her. Congratulations flew in for the teenager from all directions. One user even called her the face of the WTA.

Some said being from the United States worked in Gauff’s favour as it got her more brand exposure. A fan also pointed out Emma Raducanu being high up the list despite barely playing, claiming she got endorsements because of her beauty.

Gauff’s momentum will be challenged by Naomi Osaka, who will be making a comeback soon at the start of 2024. Names like Swiatek will also be vying for the top spot. Not to forget, 2024 is an Olympic year and athletes from Olympic sports will make a splash, on and off the field.

Amidst festive anticipation a year ago, Simone Biles’s family welcomed a special blessing: Baby Ronni Louise Biles. Her arrival brought boundless joy, quickly becoming her famous aunt’s favorite and lighting up everyone’s lives. Ronni is the daughter of Simone’s elder half-brother, Ron Biles Jr., and his wife, Sammi.

Nevertheless, peace in Biles’ homestead was interrupted when Baby Biles suffered a scary sickness episode, calling for emergency measures to access urgent treatment.
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Unexpected Parenthood Realities

Recently, Sammi Biles took to Instagram to share a poignant narrative alongside a photo featuring a T-shirt stained with blood marks. The caption accompanying it reads, “on today’s episode of what happened in our household: the scary af sh*t no one prepares you for as a mom. your child running a low-grade fever last night and this morning then throws up blood. thank God she’s ok and we have gotten her checked out.

Months ago, Simone Biles revealed her affection for babies when she met her newborn niece during Thanksgiving last year. On November 25, 2022 her brother Ron Biles and sister-in-law Sammi Biles welcomed their daughter, Ronni Louise Biles, officially making her the youngest family member. Simone took on a special role as an aunt, showering the baby with love and attention. She joyfully shared an endearing picture on her Instagram, expressing pride in being her “TT” and anticipation to spoil her. Since then, she spent considerable time with the baby, and several months ago, Ron entrusted Simone with the responsibility of positively influencing his daughter, a role she embraced with delight.

Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens’ Humorous Family Planning Dilemma

Newlywed Simone Biles recently discussed her and husband Jonathan Owens’ future plans for starting a family. Amid her return to professional commitments following their May wedding, Biles shared insights into their family planning during a Q&A session on her Instagram page held on July 17. Among various queries about her career and personal life, one fan inquired about their desire for children and the preferred number.

Biles confirmed their interest in having kids, revealing a lighthearted disagreement between her and Owens regarding the ideal number. She humorously mentioned, I would say 2 & Jonathan would say 3 is the perfect number. I don’t want to be outnumbered lol.

Simone Biles, today, stands as the most decorated gymnastics star ever with about 37 medals to her name. From Olympic titles to the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the 26-year-old adorns a coveted path. Following along, these accolades mark Simone as a viable prospect for brands looking towards robust PR and marketing. While United Airlines, Uber Eats, Visa, and more have known it well, GK Elite and Athleta have taken the lead well. With the latter launching a recent festive collection in collaboration.

As for GK Elite, the 4-time Olympic gold medalist has held a partnership with the brand since 2015. On frequent occasions, Biles has found an opportunity to express her creativity through gymnastic apparel. Now once again honoring the long-standing deal, Biles unveiled a little holiday surprise for gymnastics enthusiasts.

A gymnast can never have enough leotards. And keeping up with that schtick, GK Elite goes out to introduce collections for every occasion. Now, with Christmas around the corner, a better surprise from the Simone-GK Elite partnership couldn’t have reached the enthusiasts. In the announcement, Biles embraced a red leotard embossed with a gold print posing a belt, cross strips on the back, and ‘Simone’ to the left corner. “it’s the holiday season. Get in the spirit in my @gkelite Golden Gilded leo,” Biles wrote, sharing the post.

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This isn’t the first time Simone has gotten creative with the collection. Through her almost-decade partnership with GK Elite, Biles has introduced Leos with empowering and heartwarming meaning behind customizations. Being the first-one to do so along the way.

Simone Biles gets creative with GK Elite

According to Business Wire, in 2021, GK Elite and Biles collaborated on the first-ever athlete-designed competitive leotards as part of the Simone Biles Legacy Collection. Since then, she has designed about 16 pieces ranging in styles, colors and prints. The first series included Replica competitive leotards, Signature training leotards, and Legacy customizable competitive leotards. However, one among all outdid the rest.

In May, a month after her marriage with Jonathan Owens, Biles released a limited-edition leotard that paid homage to her own wedding. The gymnast named it “something blue” making it the only design in the history of GK to be inspired by events from outside the realm of competition. The design sported baby blue tunes partnered with white and little pearls around the torso. Festive season or not, Biles’ collections are the ones to look forward to.

Simone Biles has had an epic journey in gymnastics. What started as a passion at 6 years of age has made her the most decorated gymnast 20 years later. While most of Biles’s past teammates are retired gymnasts themselves, Biles is still at it, proving she is the GOAT of the sport.

Age is just a number for 26-year-old Simone Biles, as she made history by becoming the oldest woman to clinch victory at the U.S. gymnastics championships this year. Yet, despite this, a moment came up where Biles recalled her age in a surprising and nostalgic reunion with her past.

Simone Biles recollects her age

Simone Biles took to Instagram to share a surprising picture that warmed the hearts of her 7.1 million followers. She shared a two picture carousel post with the Final Five Teammates of the 2016 Rio Olympics, Aly Raisman and Laurie Hernandez. Biles wore a chic black dress paired with a crisp white blazer and stylish leather boots, while Raisman opted for a sophisticated brown dress paired with a matching tweed blazer and tan leather boots. Hernandez looked classy in a long black leather skirt, paired with black leather boots and a stylish white halter-neck tank top.

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The women looked elegant in their fall attire, posing warmly and beaming beside each other in the pictures. Simone Biles captioned the picture “grown-ish” with an emotional emoji and a white heart emoji. The picture took fans back in time to when Biles was merely 19 years old, and she competed with the final five at her first Olympics in Rio. This heartwarming update also came after Biles surprised her fans with an iconic gymnastics moment on TikTok.

Another iconic gymnastics reunion

Simone Biles took to TikTok to share a video that made gymnastics fans around the world squeal with joy. She captioned the video rounding up some of the gym girls set to the tune Lovin’ on Me by Jack Harlow. The short clip began with Simone Biles, dressed in a blue satin dress with her gorgeous braids left loose as she blew a kiss at the camera.

After playfully covering the lens, a delightful surprise unfolded as an array of gymnastics stars like Aly RaismanLaurie HernandezMaggie NicholsMadison Kocian, and Kyla Ross appeared, each waving in a heartwarming virtual reunion.

Years After Making Her Dance Debut, Simone Biles Shares a Heartfelt Cheer for Her Dancing With the Stars Favorite

The video and the most recent update of Simone Biles with Aly and Laurie have sent waves of excitement into the gymnastics world upon seeing the gymnastics queens together after years.

With the medal, the seven-time Olympic medallist becomes the sport’s most decorated ever

Simone Biles is on top again, striking gold in the women’s all-around final Friday (6 October) at the 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Antwerp. It’s a sixth global title and her first since 2019.

From the moment Biles stepped into the Sportspaleis, flashing her megawatt smile, to deafening screams from the packed house, it appeared it would be her night. She went on to tally 58.399 ahead defending champion Rebeca Andrade of Brazil (56.766).

2022 World all-around silver medallist Shilese Jones took the bronze medal at 56.332.

“I was emotional because 10 years I won my first Worlds, now we’re back here,” Biles said afterward. “So, it was emotional. It means everything to me, the fight, everything that I’ve put in to get back to this place to feel comfortable and confident enough to compete.”

 

The win comes with more history for Biles, who donned a blue sequinned leotard the crystals on which shone as bright as the sport’s biggest star.

She’s now the only gymnast to win World all-around titles a decade apart, having taken her first title in the very same venue in 2013. Legendary gymnasts Uchimura Kohei of Japan and Russia’s Svetlana Khorkina‘s first and last titles were six years apart, the previous record.

Biles is also the only female gymnast to take six all-around crowns, tying her with Uchimura.

With 34 World and Olympic medals, she becomes the sport’s most decorated ever, male or female. After Wednesday’s women’s team final title, Biles was tied with Vitaly Scherbo, who competed for the Soviet Union, the Unified Team and Belarus throughout his career.

“All in all, I don’t think it will hit me until maybe I retire and then look back and see everything that I’ve done,” said Biles of her historic career. “Tonight, I think it was a good start.”

Ahead of competition, coach Laurent Landi noted many were keeping a close eye on her pupil to see if she still had ‘it.’

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“It still proves to myself and other people that I can do it, so I’m proud of the work that I’ve put in to get to this point,” said Biles of those who might have questioned her, “and it’s just exciting that I just keep going up, up each and every year, so I’m excited for what’s to come.”

Simone Biles exclusive: ‘I didn’t know if I was ever going to be able to compete again’

‘Gymnastics is something that I do, and it’s not who I am as a person’

In the opening rotation, the 26-year-old chose not to perform the daring Yurchenko double pike that became her fifth named element earlier in the week. Instead, she vaulted a Cheng (round off onto the board, half turn onto the vaulting table, front layout with one-and-a-half twists) and delivered one of her best attempts at the manuever this season. Her 9.500 execution score gave her a 15.100 final score.

On the uneven bars, Biles earned a 14.333 after pushing through some nervous looking elements to stick her full-twisting, double back dismount. She moved to balance beam with a .233 lead over Andrade.

 

First to go in the third rotation, Biles shared a laugh with coach Cecile Landi, a 1996 Olympian, after her touch warm-up.

In competition, Biles opened her routine with a slight balance error her switch leap mount. After adding an additional switch leap, Biles was nearly flawless on the 10 centimetre wide apparatus. She earned a 14.433.

Heading to the floor exercise, Biles had a .934 lead over Jones. Last to go, her 14.533 score gave her the historic gold medal.

The superstar gymnast returns to competition after withdrawing from the women’s team final at the Tokyo 2020 Games to prioritise her mental health as she dealt with what gymnasts call the ‘twisties,’ where the body and mind fall out of sync.

“I was actually was less nervous today. I think I was so much more nervous for team finals just because that’s when everything occurred, so I was a little bit traumatized from that,” said Biles, referencing Tokyo. “Today, I felt a little more relaxed.”

She told Olympics.com before heading to the Worlds that she’s working to find more balance her life in her return to the sport, making sure to find time for friends, family and self-care.

“They’ve been amazing just to keep my mind off gymnastics because for a couple of years whenever I wasn’t in the sport that’s kind of all I had. We got to hang out, have fun, just be normal adults, so I think it’s been really nice that even when we go back we’re going to try to go to a winery and stuff like that just to keep it normal,” Biles said of those around her. “Gymnastics is something that I do, and it’s not who I am as a person and I think it took years to realize that.”

Legendary gymnast Simone Biles has been nominated for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. Other nominees for the award are star athletes Aitana Bonmati, Erling Haaland, Novak Djokovic, Siya Kolisi, and Max Verstappen.

The 2023 BBC Sports Personality of the Year will be the 70th edition of the award ceremony. On December 5, the publication opened its voting gates on its website. The polls will close on 12 December 2023, 22:00 GMT.

Simone Biles was the only gymnast to make it to the list of six athletes that BBC released. After her two-year mental health break, the four-time Olympic gymnast made an impressive comeback this year. She made her way to the 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and won five medals.

Biles won four world championship gold medals in the team, all-around, balance beam, and floor exercise events. She also won a silver medal in the vault event. Her impressive performance made her the gymnast with the most number of World Championship medals in the world (30). She is also the gymnast with the highest number of World Championship gold medals (23).

Simone Biles

This year, Biles became the only gymnast to represent the United States for the sixth time in the World Championship forum. She made her debut in the world championship in 2013 where she bagged two gold medals, a silver medal, and a bronze medal.

Simone Biles struggled with mental health issues during the 2020 Summer Olympics

While performing at the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics in 2021, Simone Biles shared that she felt a disconnect between her mind and body.

The experience prompted Biles to address her mental well-being. She subsequently announced her break from gymnastics during the 2021 Summer Olympics. In an interview with NBC Olympics, Biles revealed what affected her to take a break. She said:

Simone Biles took a break from professiona; gymnastics for two full years before returning to the sport in 2023 at the US Classic.

Legendary gymnast Simone Biles has been nominated for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. Other nominees for the award are star athletes Aitana Bonmati, Erling Haaland, Novak Djokovic, Siya Kolisi, and Max Verstappen.

The 2023 BBC Sports Personality of the Year will be the 70th edition of the award ceremony. On December 5, the publication opened its voting gates on its website. The polls will close on 12 December 2023, 22:00 GMT.

Simone Biles was the only gymnast to make it to the list of six athletes that BBC released. After her two-year mental health break, the four-time Olympic gymnast made an impressive comeback this year. She made her way to the 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships and won five medals.

Biles won four world championship gold medals in the team, all-around, balance beam, and floor exercise events. She also won a silver medal in the vault event. Her impressive performance made her the gymnast with the most number of World Championship medals in the world (30). She is also the gymnast with the highest number of World Championship gold medals (23).

This year, Biles became the only gymnast to represent the United States for the sixth time in the World Championship forum. She made her debut in the world championship in 2013 where she bagged two gold medals, a silver medal, and a bronze medal.

Simone Biles struggled with mental health issues during the 2020 Summer Olympics

While performing at the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics in 2021, Simone Biles shared that she felt a disconnect between her mind and body.

The experience prompted Biles to address her mental well-being. She subsequently announced her break from gymnastics during the 2021 Summer Olympics. In an interview with NBC Olympics, Biles revealed what affected her to take a break. She said:

Simone Biles took a break from professiona; gymnastics for two full years before returning to the sport in 2023 at the US Classic.