Simone Biles may be adding some ink inspired by the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The gymnast, 27, who won gold in the women’s all-around final (an event in which she first won gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics), revealed in a recent GRWM video that she may mark her third Olympics with a new tattoo.
“I haven’t decided if I’m going to get a tattoo after this,” she said while applying makeup in the clip, which was filmed before her big win. “I already have the Olympic rounds, but maybe something like going to Paris. I’m not sure.”
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According to Teen VogueBiles, who is officially the most decorated American gymnast in Olympic history, got a tattoo of the Olympic rings in March 2017. Her other body ink includes the phrase “And still I rise,” her year of birth, 1997, two tiny butterflies and the words “Golden” and ” XO” tattoo, according to POPSUGAR.
Biles candidly described the meaning of her “And still I rise” tattoo on her Netflix series Simone Biles on the rise.
“Before I got this tattoo, it was a saying that I loved — Maya Angelou, obviously — and I was like, ‘I still get up is perfect,’ because I feel like that’s kind of the epitome of my career and my life story,” she said. “Because I’m always up to the occasion, and after all the traumas and falls, I’m always up to it.”
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It’s no surprise that Biles might get some new body image after the Olympics, as she and teammates Jade Carey, Sunisa “Suni” Lee, Jordan Chiles and Hezly Rivera also won gold in the women’s gymnastics team final.
After being forced to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympics due to a disorienting condition known as twisties, competing with her teammates proved to be a success in itself.
“At the start of the day, I started therapy this morning, so that was super exciting. I told her I felt calm and ready and that’s pretty much what happened,” she told reporters, including PEOPLE, at a press conference after the women’s team final.
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Simone Biles shows off her Olympic rings tattoo at the 2017 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Sports Awards.
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“After I finished the jump, I was relieved. I said, ‘Phew,’ because [there were] no flashbacks or anything,” Biles said. “I felt a huge sense of relief, and as soon as I hit the jump, I was like, ‘Oh yeah, I’m definitely — we’re going to do this.’ ”
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