Simone Biles being startled by something became a new, gold medal meme

Charles Curtis
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An overview shows US' Simone Biles preparing to compete in the artistic gymnastics women's floor exercise final during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Bercy Arena in Paris, on August 5, 2024. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images) ORIG FILE ID: 2164954551
An overview shows US' Simone Biles preparing to compete in the artistic gymnastics women's floor exercise final during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Bercy Arena in Paris, on August 5, 2024. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP) (Photo by ODD ANDERSEN/AFP via Getty Images) ORIG FILE ID: 2164954551

Simone Biles may be done competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics after a medal-filled performance, but she's still very much in the spotlight.

She's hanging out with Elmo, she's doing interviews, and one moment from the Olympics has become a perfect meme that very much deserves its own gold medal.

It looks like she's chatting with someone while warming up, when something startles her. And lots of people have turned that into a meme, focused on when something startles or surprises you.

Here's a roundup as the meme continues to make its way around the interwebs, much of it through X (formerly Twitter):

This article originally appeared on For The Win: Simone Biles being startled by something became a new, gold medal meme

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