Simone Biles leads Team USA gymnastics gold medal celebrations in hilarious behind-the-scenes TikTok video with Suni Lee and teammates

After starring her squad successful competition, Simone Biles spearheaded nan USA gymnastics side's ceremony aft bagging golden medals astatine nan Paris Olympics connected Tuesday. 

Following their convincing triumph complete Brazil and Italy, Biles and her squad took to TikTok to show disconnected their caller portion of hardware. 

Biles posted a video backstage pinch teammates Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, and Hezly Rivera jokingly 'biting' their golden medals pinch a soundbite to lucifer their actions. 

'TASTE GOLDEN,' she captioned. She besides wrote 'us' betwixt a reddish bosom emoji connected 1 extremity and bluish bosom emoji connected nan other. 

Aside from Biles, Lee besides posted her video dubbed pinch an iconic Kanye West soundbite from his reside astatine nan 47th Grammy Awards. 

'Everybody want to cognize what I would do if I didn't win,' Lee and Chiles articulator synced successful nan opening clip earlier covering nan camera and unveiling nan squad holding their medals. 

'I conjecture we'll ne'er know,' they mouthed successful unison earlier a hit dropped and nan video concluded. 

With each but 1 personnel of nan squad featured connected nan celebratory videos, fans took to nan remark sections connected some clips to inquire astir Jade Carey's absence. 

'She went to nan bath & past we haven't seen her since,' Biles responded to 1 user. 

The self-described 'Redemption Tour,' nan moniker fixed to a squad filled pinch women who wanted to return to nan Games for profoundly individual reasons, ended pinch Biles and nan Americans wherever they person almost ever been since she burst onto nan segment 11 years ago: connected apical of nan podium, nan remainder of nan world looking up.

Eight years aft winning golden successful Rio pinch a group that called Aly Raisman grandma because she was each of 22, Biles - now 27 and joined - was backmost again pinch Carey (24), Chiles (23), Lee (21) and teen Rivera astatine her side.

'We don´t person to beryllium put successful nan container anymore,' Biles said.

With Biles astatine her show-stopping best, nan Americans' full of 171.296 was good clear of Italy and Brazil and nan exclamation constituent of a yearlong tally successful which Biles has cemented her bequest arsenic nan top ever successful her sport, and among nan champion successful nan history of nan Olympics.

'She's nan top of each greats,' said Chiles, who now has golden to spell pinch nan squad metallic she, Lee and Biles earned successful Tokyo, erstwhile Biles removed herself from nan squad last to protect herself.

Chiles, who seemed for illustration a longshot to make it this outpouring aft injuries piled up, was beautiful bully successful her ain right. She began nan nighttime by drilling her double-twisting Yurchenko vault, sending nan Americans connected a four-apparatus extremity connected their 'Tour' that felt adjacent parts coronation and celebration.

And complete 2 hours successful beforehand of a crowd that included everyone from tennis awesome Serena Williams and character Natalie Portman, Biles near small uncertainty astir anything. 

Her position arsenic nan sport's top of each time. Her expertise to move past nan 'twisties' that derailed her successful Japan. Her spot successful nan pantheon of nan U.S. Olympic movement.

She now has a staggering 38 medals successful awesome world competitions. Eight of those person travel nether nan Olympic rings, moving her past Shannon Miller for nan astir by an American gymnast.

Yet her return wasn't truthful overmuch astir winning. That's ne'er really been nan constituent anyway, conscionable a byproduct of her unparalleled excellence. It was astir a joyousness she had mislaid location on nan way.

Italy, which was a surprising 2nd to nan US during qualifying, returned to nan podium for nan first clip since 1928 by holding disconnected Brazil for silver.