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Biles had been hoping to win a fourth gold at these Games but a couple of mistakes meant she had to settle for silver behind the Brazilian.
However, the 27-year-old, who is the world’s most decorated gymnast, was far from disappointed and instead joined Chiles in showing admiration to Andrade in one of the iconic images of these Games.
The trio also made history as the first all-black podium in men or women’s gymnastics at the Olympics.
“Rebeca’s so amazing, she’s a queen,” said Biles. “She’s such an excitement to watch and then all the fans in the crowd were always cheering for her, so it was just the right thing to do.
“It was an all-black podium so that was super-exciting for us, but then Jordan was like ‘should we bow to her?’ and I was like ‘absolutely’.”
Andrade, who lost out on the all-around title to Biles last week, appreciated the show of respect, saying: “It was very cute of them.
“They are the world’s best athletes and what they did means a lot to me. We’re always rooting for each other, the final is very difficult for everyone.”
Biles now has 11 Olympic medals after winning team, all-around and vault golds in Paris to go with her floor silver, while she was fifth in the beam final.
The emotion finally got to Simone Biles after her Olympics were over.
Upon getting back to the Olympic Village after competing in the floor and balance beam on Monday, Biles “just started bawling my eyes out,” she told the TODAY Show in a wide-ranging interview Tuesday morning.
“[Jordan Chiles] was like, I knew it was gonna happen, I just didn’t know when,” Biles told Hoda Kotb. “I was so proud, happy, bittersweet that the journey’s over. It’s like, it’s so crazy. It happened so quick, my third Olympics.”
Biles took home three gold medals in the individual all-around, team all-around and vault, along with silver in the floor.
That brought her total to 11 Olympic medals, tied with Vera Caslavska as the second-most decorated female Olympic gymnast.
After a disastrous Games three years ago in Tokyo in which she had to withdraw from most of the competition due to the “twisties,” the Paris Games served as a redemption tour for Biles.
