Simone Biles Shares Sweet Photo of Jade Carey Celebrating Olympics Gold Medal Amid Illness

Yesterday’s triumph astatine nan 2024 Olympics wasn’t conscionable a dream for Team USA! The greeting aft nan women’s gymnastics squad won gold successful nan squad final, Simone Biles shared a saccharine photograph of teammate Jade Carey celebrating their accomplishment successful her pajamas.

Simone, 27, took to Instagram connected Wednesday, July 31, to stock nan tiny threat of Jade, 24, opinionated successful beforehand of a instrumentality successful an Olympic Village bedroom. The creator gymnast gave a sleepy but immense grin arsenic she proudly held up nan golden medal. Jade was wearing her Skims Olympic oversized T-shirt pajama dress, making it evident that she had conscionable rolled retired of bed.

“*wakes up* ‘IT’S REAL,’” Simone wrote complete nan photo. Jade shared nan pic connected her ain Instagram Stories and added, “Real life!!” pinch a bosom hands emoji.

Simone and Jade, on pinch teammates Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles and Hezly Rivera, won first spot successful nan squad last astatine nan Bercy Arena successful Paris connected Tuesday, July 30, pinch a people of 171.296. Simone and Jordan, 23, participated successful each 4 events — nan vault, bars, beam and level workout — while Suni, 21, competed successful nan second three. Jade competed successful nan vault. Hezly, 16, did not suffice to participate successful nan squad last but still earned a golden badge arsenic a personnel of nan team.

Jade’s redemption came aft she had an unusually unsmooth clip during her level regular successful nan qualifiers connected Sunday, July 28. The jock excelled successful this arena during nan 2020 Olympics successful Tokyo, truthful galore fans were shocked to spot her make a fewer messy landings. As she vanished her routine, Jade fell retired of bounds astatine nan area of nan mat.

In a follow-up question and reply pinch Olympics.com, Jade revealed that she had “not been emotion well” recently. Though she didn’t specify an illness, she explained that it wasn’t conscionable nerves holding her backmost connected nan mat.

“I conscionable person not been emotion good nan past fewer days and haven’t been capable to eat aliases anything,” she continued. “I had, like, nary power coming and didn’t really person a consciousness of what was going connected successful my head. So, I conscionable benignant of wanted group to cognize that so, they cognize that there’s really thing wrong.”

Jade’s begetter and coach, Brian Carey, had antecedently missed nan team’s believe connected July 25 owed to an undisclosed illness.

After nan qualifiers, Jade took to X pinch a connection for her fans. “I haven’t been emotion nan champion nan past fewer days, but I gave it everything I had today. convey you for each nan support I person received. I’m truthful grateful,” she wrote.

Meanwhile, connected Instagram, she added, “Not nan time I was expecting to person but I can’t convey you each capable for nan emotion and support. I americium truthful proud of this squad and what we accomplished today. We’re not done yet.”

Though Jade still wasn’t emotion her champion erstwhile nan squad last rolled around, she managed to powerfulness done and onshore an astonishing vault.

“It conscionable feels truthful incredible. I’m ace excited and ace proud of this squad and everything that we’ve flooded to get backmost present connected apical of nan podium again,” she told nan Today show’s Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie. “A batch of unit connected that 1 vault, but I knew that if I was conscionable my normal aforesaid that I would get nan occupation done.”

Jade will compete successful nan vault last connected Saturday, August 3.