The seven-time Olympic gold medalist wrote in a post on the X social networking platform: “Let us enjoy the moment we’ve worked so hard for.
One of her fans joked, “What is your next step after winning [a] gold medal??”
Biles responded with a cheeky “Babysitting the medal.”
Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history, earned her seventh gold medal and third of the Paris Olympics on Saturday in the women’s gymnastic vault.
With the individual floor and balance beam contests still to come, she might break her record of four medals from the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Biles’ victorious return to the Olympic arena was one of the biggest stories of the Tokyo Games, when she withdrew out of the majority of her events despite being the favourite to win several gold medals.
She later revealed she was suffering from “the twisties,” a condition in which a gymnast loses sense of their position in the air.
She received widespread criticism for her decision to drop out and has since been meeting with a therapist in Paris.
“The negative comments are painful up to a certain point,” she told me.
“They ache, but I’m still in treatment to address all of that and ensure my mental wellness. But they (the critics) are really silent lately, which is weird.
