Simone Biles Reveals the ‘Real’ Team Name for U.S. Gymnastics Team, a Reference to a Classic TV Show
The 8-time Olympic medalist clarified that the Team USA Gymnastics team name is not the risqué phrase they announced at the Tuesday, July 30 press conference
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Simone Biles, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee and Hezly Rivera of Team USA on July 30, 2024 in Paris, France.Team USA Gymnastics has a very fitting team name now that they've scored the gold medal.
After Team USA's female gymnasts took home the gold during the 2024 Summer Olympics on Tuesday, July 30, they joked about their official team name in a press conference.
The winning quintet — Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles, Suni Lee, Hezley Rivera and Jade Carey — first revealed their risqué name, F[--k] Around and Find Out," to gold medal gymnast turned ESPN commentator Aly Raisman.
A few hours after teasing fans with the NSFW moniker, Biles announced the "official team name" on X (formerly Twitter).
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Simone Biles, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee and Hezly Rivera of Team USA on July 30, 2024 in Paris, France."Okay on the real though, the official team name is ?golden girls? (because oldest olympic team),” she wrote.
The clever nickname seems to be a reference to the NBC sitcom The Golden Girls. It ran from 1985 to 1992 and starred Bea Arthur as Dorothy Zbornak, Betty White as Rose Nylund, Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux and Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo,
Biles, 27, also added a sweet shoutout to her personal coach, Cecile Canqueteau-Landi: “s/o to cecile????.”
Related: Simone Biles Is Now the Most Decorated U.S. Gymnast in Olympic History After Team Final Win
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Simone Biles and Cecile Landi on August 03, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.In previous years, Team USA's female gymnasts were dubbed the Magnificent Seven in 1996, the Fierce Five in London 2012, the Final Five in Rio 2016 and the Fighting Four in Tokyo in 2021.
But the “Golden Girls” won the gold due to the group’s final score of 171.296, nearly six points above the second-place Italy.
“I think in 2016 we were destined to win gold, and so whenever we went out there, we did our job and we did win gold, and it was just like we were a little young and naive,” Biles said during the press conference. “It didn’t hit the way that it does now, now that I’m older and we have so much more experience and we’re out here really having fun and enjoying what we’re doing.”
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Jade Carey, Sunisa Lee, Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles and Hezly Rivera on July 30, 2024 in Paris, France.Related: Simone Biles and U.S. Gymnastics Win Gold in Paris Olympics Team Final: Read the Full Recap
In addition to Biles and the team “having fun and enjoying what [they’re] doing,” the gymnastics legend has become the most decorated U.S. gymnast—with eight medals—in Olympic history after the team’s final win. She surpassed former American gymnast Shannon Miller, who earned seven medals at the 1992 Barcelona and 1996 Atlanta Games.
Tuesday's victory marks Biles' fifth gold medal and her record-breaking 38th medal overall — which includes her wins at the Olympics and World Championships.
This is the second gold for Lee and Carey and the first for Chiles and Rivera, the latter of whom did not participate in any apparatuses on Tuesday. Team USA previously won silver in the event at the Tokyo and Beijing Games, and gold in Rio and London.
Biles has an opportunity to add more hardware to her collection on Thursday when she competes in the women's individual all-around event.
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