Simone Biles Urges People to Refrain from Asking Olympic Champions This Common Question
Biles hinted at the possibility of competing in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, which would be her fourth Olympic appearance.
“Never say never,” she said. “The next Olympics is at home, so you just never know.”
She joked, “But I am getting really old.”
While Biles is not the oldest Olympic champion, she is the oldest Olympic all-around winner in 72 years since Maria Gorokhovskaya competed at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952 at age 30. Former Team USA gymnast Marie Margaret Hoesley was 35 when she competed in the same competition.
The oldest gymnast to compete in the Olympic Games is Uzbek athlete Oksana Chusovitina, who was 46 when she participated in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
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