United States gymnast Simone Biles has revealed she suffered a serious health scare, describing the experience as “almost dying”.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old American did not reveal any details about what happened but said it was one of the “scariest experiences” of her life as she updated supporters in a series of Instagram posts.<\/p>\n
The seven-time Olympic gold medallist posted pictures on her story which included her wrist covered in hospital bands, flowers and a screenshot of a heart rate monitor, adding she will explain what has happened later.<\/p>\n
Biles also replied to a fan on X to say it had been a “health” scare.<\/p>\n
In her post on Saturday, she said: “I’m not one to normally share things like this because I value privacy in today\u2019s age.<\/p>\n
“But almost dying wasn\u2019t on my bingo card earlier this week.<\/p>\n
“This was one of, if not the scariest experience of my life, especially since Jonathan (Owens, her husband and Indianapolis Colts NFL player) was in Indy for his practices.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve been in bed resting this week. I\u2019ll explain sooner or later, but s\/o (shoutout) to my close circle who reached out, checked in, visited & or sent flowers.”<\/p>\n
At Paris 2024, Biles won a total of four medals including three golds which took her overall tally to 11 Olympics medals since making her debut at just 19 years of age in Rio in 2016.<\/p>\n
She has also previously stated that she is unsure whether she will compete at the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States gymnast Simone Biles has revealed she suffered a serious health scare, describing the experience as “almost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-488508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}