But she made time to shut down “fucking miserable” people attacking her husband, Chicago Bears defensive back Jonathan Owens. Particularly one TikTok user.
Owens, who got time off from training camp to watch Biles compete, wore her gold medal in a photo of the two after she led the U.S. squad to victory in the team event. “Witnessing history every time you step on the mat,” he wrote on Instagram. “Congrats baby on becoming the most decorated American gymnast in Olympic history!!!! Just wow!!!! 8 of them!!!!! So thankful I was there to see it.”
Negative comments popped up telling Owens that the medal wasn’t his to wear. “Why he holding it like he won it,” one commenter sniped. “That’s Simone’s gold medal you’re holding, not yours my guy,” another wrote.
Then a TikTok video by one user ordered Owens to “Take her medal off! … Take her medal off!”
The gymnastics legend clapped back hard in the comments.
“Crazy thing is, I put my medal on every single one of my family members and took pictures,” Biles wrote on Thursday. “So don’t ever make assumptions. Like y’all are so fucking miserable. Leave us alone.”
The user said she was honored to be reprimanded by “such a talented woman” in a follow-up video.
Online trolling of Owens has been a simmering issue for Biles that has boiled over from time to time.
“Y’all are blatantly being disrespectful to my relationship & my husband,” Biles wrote in May on Instagram. “So I’m gonna go ahead and say this one time. Respectfully, fuck off.”
Much of the negativity stemmed from Owens saying on a December podcast that he didn’t know who Biles was when they matched on a dating app and suggested he was “the catch” in the relationship.
The two married in April of 2023.
On the mat in the City of Light, she has let her performance do the talking. Biles won gold for the team event and all-around, bringing her Olympic career total to 9 medals overall.
She competes in the women’s vault on Saturday.
