2024 OLYMPIC: Simone Biles sent heartwarming message to her fans.
The US Olympic champion is one of the most decorated athletes in history.
She was the first woman ever to land the notoriously dangerous Yurchenko double pike vault.
And a clip showed Biles, 27, flawlessly executing the move in training yesterday in an ominous warning to her competitors.
The stunt involved a roundoff back-handspring onto the vaulting table and two and a half flips in the pike position.
After she landed, her teammates cheered and coach Laurent Landi gave her a high five as she walked off the mat.
The reaction was just as jubilant on social media.
“Goat USA Gymnast! Bringing home all the gold,” one fan posted.
“Can’t think of a better gymnast,” added another.
“Unreal. That landing. Just wow. Simone is on fire,” posted a third.
“If she does that during vault competition, I suspect her score will be almost a ten or maybe a ten,” a fourth ventured.
Biles is the subject of a new Netflix documentary about her journey.
She had to chart a course back to the big time after withdrawing from the 2020 Tokyo campaign amid a mental health battle.
The four-part series, which Netflix released on July 17, follows Biles’ personal life as she balances mental health with the demands of being a professional athlete.
It plots her path back to the Olympics after she famously withdrew from Tokyo.
The gymnast had described her “time off” as the happiest moment of her career and was said to have been looking forward to the Olympics ending because of the “unreal” pain in her ankles.
The opening ceremony takes place today on the River Seine in the heart of Paris.
