Simone Biles & Team USA Gymnasts Cheered On By Celebs As They WIN GOLD At Olympics.

Olympics women’s gymnastics team final: Biles becomes the most decorated gymnast of all time as USA takes gold

Biles put the final touches on Team USA’s first team gold medal in women’s gymnastics since 2016.

What to know

Team USA won its first team gold medal in women’s gymnastics since Rio de Janeiro in 2016. USA won silver in Tokyo.
USA’s overall score was 171.296. Italy took silver and finished with 165.494, and Brazil took bronze with 164.497.
Simone Biles battled through a calf injury to compete in all four events — bars, beam, vault and floor — and put the final touches on USA’s win with her floor routine.

Jordan Chiles also competed in all four events. Suni Lee competed in bars, beam and floor, and Jade Carey competed on vault. Hezly Rivera, the 16-year-old newcomer, did not compete but secured a medal with the team.

Simone Biles sets the record straight, reveals their REAL team nickname

After a video of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team revealing their NSFW nickname for themselves went viral on Tuesday, Simone Biles is setting the record straight.

Earlier in the day at a press conference following their gold medal win, the team had said their unofficial nickname for themselves was “F.A.A.F.O.” which means “f— around and find out.”

However, by 2 a.m. (on Paris time) Biles tweeted an update, writing that they wanted to be called the “Golden Girls.”

“ok on the real though, the official team name is golden girls (because oldest olympic team),” she wrote, with a shoutout to “cecile,” presumably Cécile Canqueteau-Landi, Biles’ coach at World Champions Centre in Spring, Texas.

As Biles noted in her post, the “Golden Girls” team is one of the oldest the U.S. has sent to to the Olympics. Biles is 27, Jade Carey is 24, Jordan Chiles is 23, Suni Lee is 21 and Hezly Rivera is 16.

Team USA gymnasts will appear on TODAY on Wednesday morning

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Team USA’s women’s gymnastics team told NBC reporter Stephanie Gosk in the moments after their gold medal win that they were thrilled to have fans — and their families — in the stands to watch this time around after the Tokyo Games were limited because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“This one is so different, I feel like we had so much fun this time, clearly,” Suni Lee said. “It was so different, it was nice to be able to look up and see your family in the stands.”

Simone Biles also added that there were so many fans in the stands that they had been “nervous we weren’t going to be able to hear our floor music and all of that.”

“But we really just embraced the moment and had fun with it,” she said.

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Simone Biles says she doesn’t keep track of her medal count

In a press conference following her record-breaking Olympic win, Simone Biles revealed that she actually does not keep count of her own wins.

“I don’t keep count; I don’t keep stats,” NBC News reported Biles said. “I just go out here and do what I’m supposed to, and I’m doing what I love and enjoying it.”

Simone Biles after winning a gold medal on the fourth day of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.Aytac Unal / Anadolu via Getty Images

“Honestly, I would have had to Google that,” she said when asked about becoming the most decorated American Olympic gymnast of all time.

She added that she doesn’t believe she will “truly understand the depth of it until I walk away from the sport.”

Biles hasn’t yet said whether she plans to compete in the next Olympic Games in four years. NBC News reports that at 27, Biles is the oldest U.S. Olympic gymnast in 72 years.