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Serena Williams and family meet up with Simone Biles at Gold Over America Tour; husband Alexis Ohanian quips about his efforts for daughter Olympia
Simone Biles is homeward-bound and bringing America’s top gymnasts in tow to the Bayou City this weekend. The 11-time Olympic medalist’s Gold Over America Tour is about to make its swing through the Lone Star State, with stops in Austin, Houston and Fort Worth on the docket.
You’ll notice Biles’ hometown of Houston is getting the primetime Saturday slot for the group’s performance. Billed as “an exhilarating display of jaw-dropping athleticism and high-energy choreography,” the Gold Over America Tour—or GOAT, if you will—features Biles and fellow Olympians Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey, Hezly Rivera, Paul Juida and Brody Malone, among others. The “pop concert-style spectacle” basically serves as a creative space for the Olympians to showcase their gymnastics mastery.
Tickets for the Houston show currently range anywhere from $35 for upper-level seats to $250 for front-and-center floor positions. The Gold Over America Tour is also offering a suite of “premium ticket experiences” for ticket-holders looking to get closer to the action and their favorite stars. One of the more dramatic add-on experiences is the “Gold Squad Upgrade,” which for $249 offers attendees the chance to learn and perform a “curated combination of choreography, dance and music” with Biles and company on stage.
If you’re a gymnastics fan or a Houstonian looking to take in a once-in-an-Olympics-cycle experience, the GOAT tour may be for you.
The floor exercise final at the Paris Olympics was even more screwed up than already known.
Video submitted Monday as part of Jordan Chiles’ appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal indicates a scoring inquiry for Simone Biles’ routine in the floor final was never registered, likely costing the Olympic champion another gold medal. Biles won the silver medal, finishing just 0.033 points behind Rebeca Andrade of Brazil.
“Honestly not a big deal for me, Rebeca had a better floor anyways,” Biles said Tuesday, adding a hand-heart emoji, after someone on X, formerly Twitter, pointed out issues with the inquiries for both Biles and Jordan Chiles.
“Upsetting how it wasn’t processed but I’m not mad at the results.”
Biles’s 14.133 in the floor final included a 6.9 for difficulty. Had she gotten full credit for her split leap, however, it would have given her an additional 0.10 in difficulty and a 14.233. That would have put her ahead of Andrade, who scored a 14.166.
But in the video submitted with Chiles’ appeal, Biles asks coach Cecile Landi, “Is he asking?” Landi replies, “He said he did.” After Laurent Landi, Landi’s husband and co-coach, says several things in French, Cecile Landi turns to Biles and says, “They didn’t send it,” and raises her arms in a gesture of helplessness.
