Will Simone Biles Retire? What the GOAT Gymnast Has Said About Her Next Moves
Make no mistake: Simone Biles is the GOAT when it comes to gymnastics. At the conclusion of the gymnastics competitions at 2024 Paris Olympics, she was feeling herself (as she should), telling press, "I can't be more proud of how I've done. I'm 27 years old walking away from this Games with four medals to add to my collection. Not mad about it."
She may be walking away from the 2024 Olympic Games, but will Simone Biles retire from gymnastics as a whole? Find out what the ultimate comeback kid has said about possibly retiring from the sport.
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Will Simone Biles retire?
At this point, it's anybody's guess.
Biles won four new medals at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris (gold for team, all-around and vault finals and silver for the floor final), but had a tough go at the balance beams, where she and teammate Suni Lee each took tumbles off the beams and didn't rank within the podium-level.
"Obviously, it wasn't my best performance," Biles said told NBC Sports at the end of the 2024 Olympic gymnastics competitions. "But at the end of the day, whoever medaled, medaled, and that's what's so exciting, because you just never know, it's gymnastics."
She added, "I've accomplished way more than my wildest dreams, not just at this Olympics, but in the sport, so I can't be mad at my performances. A couple years ago, I didn't think I'd be back here at an Olympic Games, so competing and then walking away with four medals ... I'm pretty proud of myself."
Days earlier, Biles warned people to not inquire about her plans so soon.
"You guys really gotta stop asking athletes what's next after they win a medal at the Olympics," she wrote on X (formerly Twitter). "Let us soak up the moment we’ve worked our whole lives for."
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Will Simone Biles go to the 2028 Olympics?
That's as far up in the air as Biles gets when she jumps.
When asked about participating in the 2028 Olympics, Biles told reporters on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, "Never say never. The next Olympics is at home, so you just never know, but I am getting really old."
While she's still young by anyone's standards, she isn't wrong about her age specifically for her sport: At 27, she's the oldest gymnast to participate in the Olympic Games in more than seven decades, according to NBC Sports.
The 2028 Olympics will be in Los Angeles, and Biles will be 31 years old if and when she competes at that time.
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How old was Simone Biles when she went to the Olympics?
Biles made her debut at the 2016 Olympics in Rio when she was 19 years old.
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How many Olympics has Simone Biles gone to?
Biles has gone to three consecutive Olympics so far: 2016 in Rio, 2020 in Tokyo (though she later withdrew after a case of the "twisties") and 2024 in Paris.
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How many Olympic medals has Simone Biles won?
As of this writing in August 2024, Biles has 11 Olympic gymnastics medals: seven gold medals, two silver medals and two bronze medals.
When her Olympics gymnastics medals are combined with her gymnastics World Championship medals, she is the most decorated gymnast of all time. If we count just her Olympic medals, she's the most decorated American gymnast of all time, and she's tied for the second-most decorated gymnast ever in the world with Věra ?áslavská of Czechoslovakia and behind only Larisa Latynina of the former Soviet Union, who has 18 total medals.
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