Ilona Maher, Alex Sedrick, Naya Tapper, Sammy Sullivan and the rest of Team USA’s women’s rugby team join TODAY in Paris to talk about their win over Australia that earned them a bronze medal.
Olympic rugby star Ilona Maher is gracing the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. The 28-year-old, who led Team USA to its first Olympic medal in rugby sevens at the 2024 Paris Games, posed in a fierce bikini on the front page of the magazine's digital September issue. Maher stood on what appeared to be a dock with her hands behind her head, smiling and sporting a red lip shade.
In a July TikTok video, Maher clapped back at a commenter who wrote that she had a body mass index of 30. “I think you were trying to roast me, but this actually is a fact. I do have a BMI of 30 — well, 29.3 to be more exact,” Maher shared on TikTok. “I’ve been considered overweight my whole life.” The Olympian shared that she is 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weights 200 pounds, the only two measurements used to calculate BMI. Per the Cleveland Clinic, a BMI between 25 and 29.
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