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Simone Biles and her husband Jonathan Owens posed with restaurant menus that read: “Fucking Olympic champion.”
After watching Owen's team, the Chicago Bears, defeat the Cincinnati Bengals in the Windy City on Aug. 17, the 27-year-old Olympian received a warm welcome upon arriving at Chicago's Maple & Ash restaurant.
In a boomerang clip shared on their Instagram Stories, the pair posed together holding a special customised menu, with the words “Damn Olympic champion!” written on it.
She also shared a close-up photo of the menu, zooming in on the words – a cheeky reference to her gold medal-winning gymnastics exploits at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
Biles has just returned home from her record-breaking victory at the Olympics, winning three gold medals and one silver in gymnastics.
Earlier in the day, she appeared on the sidelines at Soldier Field in Chicago to cheer on her husband of more than a year, Owens.
She sported a custom-made jacket featuring multiple black-and-white images of Owens from his days playing for the Green Bay Packers along with reflective, wraparound silver sunglasses, a black Prada bucket hat and a Balenciaga mesh bag.
However, much to the ire of Bears fans, the fleece jacket she was wearing also had her former team's logo emblazoned across its shoulders, leading many to criticize the gymnast for wearing the wrong merchandise.
“Obviously she supports her husband Jonathan Owens and is a top Olympian so she gets a pass…but it's still one of the oldest rivalries in all of football and she rocks #GoPackGo logos lol,” The Athletic's Chase Daniel posted on X, formerly Twitter.
“Simone Biles should be stripped of all her medals after wearing Packers gear while cheering on the Bears,” wrote one deeply offended Bears fan. “Yes, yes, I get it, her husband played for the Packers and it’s an Owens-themed jacket, but this is wrong.”
Biles eventually showed up for the Chicago Bears' exhibition game against the Cincinnati Bengals to support Owens, who was signed by the team in March as a safety on a two-year contract worth an estimated $4.5 million. The franchise reportedly allowed him five days off from preseason training to watch his wife wow the world with her jaw-dropping gymnastics moves at the Paris Olympics.
Before the match began, fans saw the seven-time Olympic gold medalist pacing the sideline in a walking boot as she recovered from a calf injury in her left leg. She had previously told NBC Sports that the boot was a “precautionary” measure.
