Simone Biles Seemingly Claps Back at Haters With GOAT Necklace After Winning Gold in All-Around

The G.O.A.T. isn’t going to fto a fewer haters get to her! Simone Biles seemingly clapped backmost astatine critics pinch a caller sparkly goat necklace aft she won different golden badge successful nan individual all-around astatine nan 2024 Olympics successful Paris. 

The creator gymnast, 27, sported nan iconic bling astir her cervix on pinch nan badge arsenic she said to reporters aft she and teammate Suni Lee competed successful nan all-around last connected Thursday, August 1. Simone vanished first pinch a people of 59.131, beating metallic medalist Rebeca Andrade of Brazil by 1.199 points. Suni, 21, won bronze successful nan title pinch a people of 56.465.

Simone revealed that teammate Jordan Chiles handed her nan caller goat pendant aft nan win. 

“It’s a small ode, I mean a batch of group emotion it, they ever telephone maine nan G.O.A.T truthful I thought it would beryllium really typical if I sewage 1 made,” she explained. “And nan haters dislike it truthful I emotion that moreover more. It’s conscionable a typical portion of maine that I person here, arsenic good arsenic successful nan colony I have, for illustration a stuffed goat, conscionable to get a reminder: ‘You tin spell retired there, you tin do it, you’ve done it before, truthful let’s go.””

However, Simone added that it was still “crazy” to cognize that group see her 1 of nan top athletes of each clip “because I still deliberation I’m Simone Biles from Spring, Texas, that loves to flip.”

Simone and Suni’s triumph comes aft they won golden successful nan squad all-around last on pinch Jordan, 23, and teammates Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera connected Tuesday, July 30. Simone and Jordan participated successful each 4 events —vault, beam, bars and level regular — while Suni competed successful nan second three. Jade, 24, competed successful nan vault exercise. Hezly, 16, was not chosen to participate successful nan squad final, but she still received a golden badge pinch her teammates.

Simone celebrated nan team’s triumph by seemingly throwing shadiness astatine erstwhile teammate MyKayla Skinner, who made antagonistic comments astir this year’s women’s gymnastics squad successful June.

“Lack of talent, lazy, Olympic champions,” Simone wrote connected Instagram alongside photos of nan squad celebrating their triumph connected nan mat. 

Many group successful nan comments applauded Simone for appearing to telephone retired MyKayla, 27.

“It doesn’t get much iconic than this.. She f’d astir n recovered retired fr. Feels for illustration I request to apologize conscionable to redeem my first name,” erstwhile Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney wrote.

Simone’s husband, Jonathan Owens, added, “F AROUND AND FIND OUT.”

“And that’s connected periodt!!” Jordan said, while Suni wrote successful a since-deleted comment, “Put a digit down if Simone Biles conscionable ended you.”

Jordan revealed connected Wednesday, July 31, that MyKayla had blocked Simone connected Instagram.

MyKayla said successful a YouTube video during nan Olympic tests that this year’s squad did not look to person nan “talent and depth” that it utilized to person “besides Simone.”

“I mean, obviously, a batch of girls don’t activity arsenic hard. The girls conscionable don’t person nan activity ethic,” she continued. “A batch of girls don’t activity arsenic hard. It’s hard, too, because of SafeSport. Coaches can’t get connected athletes which successful immoderate ways is really bully but astatine nan aforesaid time, to get to wherever you request to beryllium successful gymnastics you do person to beryllium … a small aggressive, a small intense.”

MyKayla faced backlash for her comments and later issued an apology, saying that she was “misunderstood.”

“A batch of nan worldly I was talking astir wasn’t ever needfully astir nan existent squad because I emotion and support each nan girls that made it and I’m truthful proud of them,” she said connected Instagram. “It was much astir going backmost into my ain gym and nan activity ethic is different compared to erstwhile we were doing gymnastics successful nan Marta [Karolyi] era.”