Simone Biles Defends Letting Jonathan Owens Wear Her Olympic Gold Medal amid Online Criticism: 'Leave Us Alone'

Simone Biles is standing by her man again.

The 27-year-old Olympic champion gymnast’s husband Jonathan Owens came under fire again this week after he shared a photo of himself wearing the gold medal Biles and Team USA won at the Paris Olympics.

“Witness history every time you step on the mat 😍🔥,” wrote Owens, who posed alongside his wife in a photo posted on July 31. “Congratulations to the baby on becoming the most decorated American gymnast in Olympic history!!!! Wow! !!! 8 of them!!!!! I’m so grateful to see that ❤️💙.”

It was a sweet gesture of support in the eyes of many fans, but some in the comments criticized the football star for posing as if it was his victory. Kiera Breaugh even told Owens to “take off the medal” in a video that has garnered 2.1 million views on TikTok.

Biles didn’t like that. Responding to Breaugh in the comments, she explained that Owens wasn’t the only one who posed with her award. “It’s crazy that I put my medal on every member of my family and took pictures,” she wrote on Thursday, August 1, adding, “so never make assumptions. 🙄”

“It’s like you’re all so fucking pathetic,” she continued. “Leave us alone.”

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For her part, Breaugh responded to Biles’ comments in a subsequent video shared on TikTok, saying she was “honored to be told to screw up by such a talented woman.”

“She put the medal on him,” Breaugh said. “I can’t really be mad if she told him that,”

“And you know what? Maybe I’m miserable. The most decorated gymnast of all time will call me miserable. I think that’s fine,” she added. “I think in comparison, of course, I’m not just miserable, but lazy, untalented and all the other things in the description. I’m definitely that in comparison. So it doesn’t bother me. It doesn’t bother me at all.”

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Jonathan Owens (center) cheers on Simone Biles at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

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Owens, 29, and Biles were married on April 22, 2023, at the Harris County Courthouse in Houston. A few weeks later, they had a second wedding in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

For every Biles’ competition at the Paris Games, Chicago Bears safeties were seen in the stands, showing their support by cheering her on and recording her scoring. He also wore various T-shirts designed in honor of Biles.

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“It’s super exciting just because I get to see all the work she’s put in before [the Olympics],” Owens told PEOPLE in a July 9 interview. “Everything she goes through and dealing with the media and everything, and she still goes out there and does it.”

“I like to watch [it] from an athlete’s perspective, because that’s how you would excel in any sport, it’s just being consistent and doing the same thing consistently well every day,” he continued. “You know what I mean? I love watching it and I love being out there and being a cheerleader.”

Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens in Paris during the 2024 Olympics.

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Still, the internet seems eager to remind Owens of his past words about Biles — specifically his admission that he “had no idea” who Biles was when they first met in March 2020 on the invite-only dating app Ray.

“When she won the Olympics, I was in college and we didn’t have NBC,” he said on Headquarters podcast back in December 2023. “We didn’t have Olympic channels, and we were inside [training] camp [in] end of July, beginning of August. Well, I don’t pay attention. I would never have a moment to watch [her compete].”

He also received criticism because in that same interview he claimed that he was the “catch” in their relationship.

Biles has been openly defending Owens ever since. “He never said I wasn’t a catch,” she clarified during an April 16 appearance on Call her dad podcast. “He said he’s a catch because he is. I’ve never met a man like him. A lot of people who meet him say, ‘Oh my God. I want a man like Jonathan.’ ”

Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens.

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Simone Biles calls out fans for ‘disrespecting my husband’ amid Jonathan Owens criticism

The Ohio native also said the criticism hurt her. “One night I broke down and asked myself: ‘Why are you talking about my husband like this?’ Biles admitted, calling her husband “the sweetest guy who would do anything for anybody” in the interview.

Addressing comments that she should divorce him because of his remarks, Biles revealed: “It really hurt me that they were talking about my husband like that. Because to me it’s like talk about me all you want but don’t come my family .”

Biles will next compete in the individual event finals on vault, beam and floor starting on August 3rd.

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