Simone Biles’ husband, Jonathan Owens, is cheering her on through social media as she takes half in her remaining occasions of the 2024 Paris Olympics on Monday, August 5.
Owens, 29, shared a video of him watching televised protection of Biles’ remaining occasions — the ladies’s gymnastics stability beam and flooring finals — through Instagram Tales early Monday morning. Within the clip, he could be heard saying, “Let’s go!” Over the video, he posted a number of hand-clapping emojis.
The Chicago Bears security was in Paris to help his spouse, 27, in particular person after being granted particular go away from preseason coaching by the NFL workforce. Nonetheless, he’s now again within the U.S. On Sunday, Owens shared a slideshow of images of him coaching with the Bears through Instagram and captioned it, “Again at it 🏈.”
Biles has already gained three gold medals throughout the 2024 Paris Olympics. On Saturday, August 3, she gained gold within the ladies’s vault remaining. Earlier within the week, Biles and Crew USA gained gold within the ladies’s all-around workforce remaining. Biles then gained the person all-around competitors.
Biles lately defended her husband after he was criticized for carrying one in every of her newly gained gold medals in a photograph shared through Instagram.
“Loopy factor is, I put my medal on each single one in every of my members of the family and took footage. so don’t ever make assumptions. 🙄,” she wrote through Instagram. “like y’all are so f–king depressing. go away us alone.”
Owens incited controversy in December 2023 when he spoke in regards to the early days of his relationship with essentially the most embellished gymnast of all time. When requested on “The Pivot” podcast how he landed Biles, Owens responded, “It’s actually how she pulled me, man. That’s the query,” with Biles laughing because the digicam panned to her.
Biles and Owens met on the Raya relationship app in 2020, and she or he reached out to him first.
“She messaged me on the app, like, ‘Hey,’ and I’m like, ‘That’s gotta be pretend,’” he recalled. “I didn’t know who she was on the time, however the very first thing that I noticed was that she simply had a bunch of [Instagram] followers. So in my thoughts, I’m like, ‘OK, she’s received to be good.’”
Owens additionally revealed that Biles traveled practically an hour to spend time with him amid COVID-19 restrictions and acknowledged that she did many of the legwork in establishing their romance.
“I at all times say that the boys are the catch,” he mentioned. “She did [pull me], although, as a result of I used to be preventing it. … On the time, I used to be afraid to commit. I used to be like, ‘That is my third 12 months [in the NFL], I’m attempting … it’s sort of early,’ however, you realize, it occurs once you least count on it.”
After Owens acquired main backlash for his feedback, Biles, who married the NFL participant in April 2023, defended his statements.
“I didn’t suppose something of that interview, and he by no means mentioned I wasn’t a catch. He mentioned he was a catch. As a result of he’s,” she mentioned on the “Name Her Daddy” podcast in April. “I’ve by no means met a person like him. Lots of people that meet him are like, ‘Oh, my gosh, I desire a man like that, like Jonathan.’”
Biles famous that she was current throughout the podcast’s filming and was “feeling nice” in regards to the interview. “I used to be like, ‘My man simply killed that,’” she recounted, considering that “all the pieces was OK” till she checked out social media. “Then, I’m going on Twitter and all people’s like, ‘Divorce this man, he’s imply.’”
Biles insisted that naysayers had the unsuitable thought about Owens. “He praises the bottom that I stroll on. Really, I’ve by no means met a person like him. He nonetheless opens my doorways,” she continued. “I’m not saying that to be like, ‘He nonetheless opens my doorways as a result of that’s to be anticipated of males,’ however he actually goes out of his option to do something for me.”
Biles initially thought the response to Owens’ feedback was “hilarious,” however as soon as the backlash began to “actually harm,” she “broke down” over it.
“I’m like, ‘Why are you guys speaking about my husband like this?’ You don’t know him. You don’t know who he’s,” she added. “If anyone’s met him, they know he’s the sweetest man and can do something for anyone. … Speak about me all you need, however don’t come for my household.”
On the time that Owens’ remarks went viral, Biles divulged that the pair argue over which ones is the higher athlete.
“We fought over it a pair instances, after which we vowed as soon as we received married, we wouldn’t speak about it once more,” she mentioned on 2023 Again That Yr Up in December. “But it surely retains arising each time, however he has achieved my exercise within the health club and he can barely do it, after which I went to their NFL exercise and I crushed it.”