Biles excited to have husband’s support in Paris
After a crowd-free Tokyo Olympics due to Covid restrictions, Biles is grateful that her husband, Jonathan Owens, will be cheering her on in Paris.
“He’ll be there, yes,” she said. “For just a short little time.”
Biles said the Chicago Bears are granting Owens, their safety, a couple of days off from training camps to support her at the Olympics.I
think it’s super exciting that we get to be in each other’s elements and supporting each other’s dreams and goals,” Biles said. “It’s these memories that we make that we’ll never get back. So any time we can show up for one another and support, we just get super excited because our schedules don’t align that much
After securing her second Olympic berth, Lee told reporters that Paris will be “kind of like a redemption tour” with four Tokyo team members returning to the Games.
“I’m excited to go back out there with the girls and really just see what we bring to the table,” Lee said. “I think this time around, we’re so much more mature and know what we can do and what we can’t do.”
In addition to a team gold, Lee shared what’s on her personal Paris wishlist. “I want to make all-around finals,” she said. “I want to be in the top three for the bars final, and I really want a beam gold.”
“I feel like I always make the final and then I always mess up. … It’s so annoying,” Lee said, laughing.
My why is nobody is forcing me to do it,” Biles said after the trials. “I wake up every day and choose to grind in the gym and to come out here and perform for myself, just to remind myself that I can still do it.”
Success to Biles, though, is “what she makes it.”
“I feel like right now, I’ve been successful,” Biles said. “Competing at Olympic Trials and making the Paris Olympic team … it’s what I make it.”