Simone Biles became America's most decorated gymnast — male or female — in 2019 when she won her 24th and 25th medals at the world championships.
Rose Lavelle might become the face of the four-time Women’s World Cup-champion team, coming full circle after she idolized Mia Hamm as a third-grader.
Biles was born in Columbus, Ohio, to an alcohol- and drug-addicted mother, Shanon. She and her siblings were in foster care until she and her younger sister Adria were adopted by her maternal grandfather and his wife, Nellie, who raised them in Spring, Texas. Simone, always tiny but strong, was in daycare one day when a class trip to a farm was canceled because of bad weather. Instead, the kids went to a tumbling gym — and that became a life-changing moment.
Biles quickly advanced to a Junior Olympic training program and was invited to the ranch of famed coaches Bela and Martha Karolyi when she was 14. She missed a place on the 2011 national team by one spot, and she decided to commit to full-time training. She was working out at Bannon’s Gymnastix in Houston in 2012 when the U.S. women’s Olympic team won the team gold medal.
Biles has been outspoken in her criticism of USA Gymnastics’ poor handling of Nassar’s conduct and believes the organization hasn’t done enough to ensure athletes’ safety.
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