The world will be watching if and when Simone Biles goes for gold at the Summer Olympics in Paris, but perhaps no one will be more invested in what the legendary gymnast does than her mother.
Biles has won four Olympic gold medals — plus one silver and a pair of bronze — as well as secured a record ninth all-around national championship title, but her mother, Nellie Biles, sees beyond an athlete who dominates her sport. “The Simone that I know is a young adult that I admire. She knows what she wants,” Nellie Biles told Priscilla Thompson in an exclusive interview that aired on TODAY June 13.
Don’t feel like you need to push yourself because that’s the last thing I need is to see you injure yourself on television and I’m not going to be there.’” Because she won the all-around title at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships earlier this month in Fort Worth, Texas, Biles automatically qualified for the Olympic trials, scheduled for June 27 through June 30 in Minneapolis. The five gymnasts who will make up the roster for the team will be announced at the competition.
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