CLEVELAND (AP) — Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles says she’s struggling with the arrest of her brother who was charged in a shooting that left three dead. She said in a tweet Monday that her heart aches for everyone involved, especially the victims and their families. Authorities in Ohio say 24-year-old Tevin Biles-Thomas was arrested in Georgia […]
CLEVELAND (AP) — Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles says she’s struggling with the arrest of her brother who was charged in a shooting that left three dead. She said in a tweet Monday that her heart aches for everyone involved, especially the victims and their families. Authorities in Ohio say 24-year-old Tevin Biles-Thomas was arrested in Georgia […]
The news that the brother of Olympian Simone Biles was arrested for a triple murder in Cleveland shocked many people, but perhaps no one was shocked more than the gold medalist gymnast herself.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The mix of rage, disappointment and grief are still there. Just under the surface. And while Simone Biles tries to stay focused on the healing process more than 18 months after the Olympic gymnastics champion revealed she was among the hundreds of athletes abused by disgraced sports doctor Larry Nassar, […]
Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles is opening up for the first time publicly about how she’s coping with having to relive the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. “I’m on anxiety medicine now because I had a lot of ups and downs throughout the year and trying to figure out what was wrong,” […]
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner declared Nov. 27 Simone Biles Day and presented her with a declaration and a key to the city. Biles is the most decorated American gymnast in history. Earlier this month, she won four gold medals at the World Championships in Qatar, becoming the first American to win a medal in every event […]
The interim CEO and president of USA Gymnastics has resigned four days into her job after she was slammed by Olympic champion Simone Biles for an anti-Colin Kaepernick/Nike post. Mary Bono, a former GOP congresswoman from California, was criticized by Biles after she tweeted, and then deleted, a photo of herself drawing over a Nike logo on her golf […]
Olympic champion Simone Biles is upset about an anti-Nike tweet from USA Gymnastics interim president and CEO Mary Bono. Bono was appointed Friday to hold the position while USA Gymnastics searches for a permanent successor to Kerry Perry, who resigned under pressure from the United States Olympic Committee in September after spending nine months on […]
BOSTON (AP) — The color choice wasn’t a coincidence. It was a statement. One Simone Biles felt compelled to make even as the organization she competes for struggles to find a compassionate and compelling message to sexual abuse survivors. The Olympic champion designed the leotard she wore while winning her fifth US women’s gymnastics title […]
Larry Nassar the USA gymnastics doctor has been sentenced 40 to 175 years in prison for sexual assaulting over 200 athletes while working at Michigan State and for the US gymnastics team. He’ll face another sentencing as more victims continue to share their story. Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with attorney Steven Drew who is representing […]
There’s no time like the present to share a powerful story and actress Tisha Campbell-Martin knows it. The Simone Biles Story: Courage To Soar based off the Olympians book explores her life on the road to becoming an Olympic athlete. In the recent sentence of gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar getting 40 to 175 years in prison for assaulting […]
Simone Biles watched as her friends and former Olympic teammates came forward to detail abuse at the hands of a now-imprisoned former USA Gymnastics team doctor. Drawing in part from their strength, the four-time gold medalist acknowledged Monday she is among the athletes who were sexually abused by Larry Nassar. Biles, who won five […]
