When the first part of Simone Biles' docuseries aired on Netflix last month, the ending was not yet written. Now, the script is in place.
“Simone Biles: Rising” Part 2, premiering October 25 on Netflix, will continue The most decorated gymnast of all time. to the Paris 2024 Games, where his historic return culminated in Olympic gold, Netflix announced Wednesday.
Netflix and Biles jointly promoted the final two episodes of the docuseries on Wednesday. Instagram reel parodying the streaming platform's show “Emily in Paris.” In the 20-second clip, The GOAT She shamelessly drinks from a glass of champagne (with the Eiffel Tower in the background) and eats French pastries, joking: “Since I moved to Paris, my life has been chaotic, dramatic and complicated.”
Though the trailer is inspired by fiction, Biles' sentiment rings true.
The first installment of “Simone Biles: On the Rise” The video, posted on July 17, revealed Biles' much-criticized withdrawal from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) after an episode of “twisties” (a dangerous phenomenon in which gymnasts lose awareness of their body in the air) led to an infamous botched vault routine.
People called her a “quitter” who was just having a bad day, Biles said in the docuseries. But at her level, where so much of the sport involves “trying not to die,” moving on wasn’t an option.
“Your body can only function for so long before your fuses blow,” she said, adding that she now views her struggles in Tokyo as a “trauma response.” (Biles is among hundreds of athletes who survived sexual abuse by Larry Nassar, the former national gymnastics team doctor.)
When it came to a traumatic experience, Biles said she told herself to “put it behind me, wait until my career was over, [then] “Go fix it,” she continued, “inevitably that got to her.
After Tokyo, she decided to take some time off to address her mental health – the first steps on a winding road to recovery.
“I knew it was going to be a long journey, but for me it wasn’t over,” Biles said. “I got to write my own ending.”
In Paris, at age 27, Biles became the oldest American woman to compete in Olympic gymnastics in 72 years. She left the Games with three gold medals and one silver. and regained the overall title.
She appeared to celebrate her win on Thursday, sharing on her Instagram Story that she had traded in her old black Mercedes G-wagon for a bright white model.
“Out with the old,” he captioned a photo of his old wheels, writing “In with the NEW” above the image of his new car.
