Sport acknowledges recreation!
Beyoncé shared a transferring tribute to newly minted two-time 2024 Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, who gained the ladies’s all-around particular person gymnastics last on Thursday, August 1.
Beyoncé narrates a video celebrating Biles, 27, shared by NBC on Thursday. Within the clip, which is about to the tune of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter observe “Only for Enjoyable,” the singer declares, “Simone Biles evokes me — and I’m fairly certain she evokes you, too.”
“Let’s speak about energy, as a result of, actually, that’s what this story’s about — bodily energy. Its magnificence. Its marvel. The way in which it by no means stops wonderful you,” Beyoncé says over footage of Biles competing in the course of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
“Solely a choose few know what it’s prefer to get to the highest and keep there — and by some means maintain getting higher,” Beyoncé continues.
Take your greatest shot, world. Simone Biles is prepared for you.
Beyonce units the stage for Simone within the ladies’s all-around tonight at 8/7c on NBC and Peacock. pic.twitter.com/S2xHwxORwd
— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) August 1, 2024
“Brilliance, it doesn’t come simple,” the “Texas Maintain ‘Em” singer shares. “Gold is usually a hell of a journey, and the best of all time is prepared to place that title on the road each time she walks on the market.”
“Take your greatest shot, world. She’s prepared for you,” Beyoncé concludes.
Beyoncé beforehand appeared in a video introducing Group USA that aired throughout NBC’s protection of the Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, July 26.
Biles’ profitable week started when she and her Group USA teammates — Suni Lee, Jade Carey, Hezly Rivera and Jordan Chiles — gained gold within the ladies’s group competitors on Tuesday, July 30. Thursday marked Biles’ second gold medal within the 2024 Olympics, whereas Lee, 21, gained bronze. Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade took house the silver medal.
Biles maintained a outstanding lead all through Thursday’s occasion, tailed carefully by Andrade, 25. After initially falling behind, Lee managed to drag via with a robust ground routine. Biles secured her victory in the identical ability, marking the final efficiency of the occasion.
Along with her newest victories, Biles extends her lead because the most embellished U.S. gymnast in Olympics historical past, overtaking Shannon Miller.
“I’m so pleased. My coronary heart is full as a result of I do know, as an athlete, what it takes to win a gold medal, and these women have been via all of it on the street to get right here,” Miller, 47, instructed NBC Information after Group USA gained gold within the ladies’s gymnastics group last on Tuesday.