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There were fears that her promising career had ended when she withdrew from competition during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Read on to learn all about Simone Biles' five siblings.
A few years later, another daughter, Adria Biles, arrived.
“At 3 years old, I was placed in foster care.”
During that period, Simone’s big-sister instincts kicked in as she took care of Adria.
she said in an episode of her Facebook Watch series,“Simone vs. “My parents saved me,” Biles declared on “Dancing With the Stars.”
As Simone pointed out in a video interview forGlamour, Adria competed in gymnastics until she was 17.
“She quit because of the pressure, and everybody compared her to me,” she explained.
“We were both gymnasts, so we were always trying things around the house,” Adria recalled.
“Nothing scared her.”
In an emotional caption, she admitted she’d never envisioned giving up something that she loved so much.
“Saying goodbye definitely wasn’t easy and leaving this sport wasn’t any easier,” she wrote.
“I still love gymnastics and always will but I want to try new things!”
“Even in Brazil, people came up to me every day thinking I was her.
They’d ask for autographs and take pictures.”
“They’d just say, ‘Simone!
and finally I decided it was easier to just let them take a picture,” she said.
“But I’m about five-foot-two.
Simone is four-foot-eight,” she said.
“I’m a good head taller than her.
When we are side by side, people can definitely tell us apart.”
I have her whole face!”
“She’d want me to catch her when she bounced off things,” he said.
“She was two or three, and she used to use my arm for pull-ups.
She’d be smiling and laughing.
If I stopped, she’d make me straighten it and hold it for her again.
I said, ‘Simone, that’s not normal.'”
“She’d have a conversation and hold a handstand at the same time.”
In November 2022, the couple welcomed their first child, daughter Ronni Louise Biles.
“I’m so grateful and blessed to FINALLY be a Father!!
“We’re OFFICIALLY on our way Paris!!!!”
he wrote in the caption accompanying a family photo that he posted onInstagram.
“I’m still in shock and can’t believe we’re all going.”
That was necessitated by avascular necrosis, a condition that leads to femur bone tissue death.
Not much is known about him, other than what he’s put out about himself onLinkedIn.
“They’re not going to all be Simones,” Nellie told theHouston Chronicle.
“No, they’re not all going to go to the Olympics.
But give everybody an opportunity to see where the chips fall.
And right now, I think we’re doing a great job.”
The younger of those two siblings is Tevin Biles-Thomas.
He was charged with murder, voluntary manslaughter, felonious assault, and perjury.
According to eyewitnesses who testified at his trial, they hadn’t seen the face of the shooter.
The eldest child of Shanon Biles, Ashley is seven years older than the gymnast.
When they were children, Ashley took a maternal role toward Simone and her younger sister.
Ashley, however, has supported her little sis in her quest for Olympic glory.
Back in 2014, she and her boyfriend were involved in a routine traffic stop.
She was indicted, charged with possession and trafficking of drugs.
Meanwhile,Heavyobtained court documents indicating that Ashley had some other arrests.
In 2019, she was convicted of assault.
That same year, she was also charged with possessing drug paraphernalia, but that charge was eventually dismissed.
In 2021, just a few weeks before the beginning of the Tokyo Olympics, Ashley was arrested again.
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