{"id":464684,"date":"2026-06-07T00:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464684\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T00:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:13:09","slug":"olympian-simone-biles-says-health-scare-left-her-almost-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/464684\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympian Simone Biles says health scare left her \u2018almost dying\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFP<\/p>\n<p>6 Jun, 2026 10:09 PM2 mins to read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Simone Biles&#8217;s Instagram post showing her wrist with a number of hospital bracelets. Photo \/ @simonebiles<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Gymnastics superstar Simone Biles has revealed a recent health scare, providing no details about the medical emergency she called one of the scariest experiences of her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         She posted on Instagram: \u201cI\u2019m not one to normally share things like this because I value privacy in today\u2019s age, but almost dying<br \/>\n         wasn\u2019t on my bingo card earlier this week. This was one of, if not the scariest experience of my life.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Biles wrote her comments over a photo of her wrist encircled by several hospital bracelets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">The 29-year-old added that the experience was all the more terrifying because husband Jonathan Owens was away for off-season training with his Indianapolis Colts NFL team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Biles wrote: \u201cI\u2019ve been in bed resting this week. I\u2019ll explain sooner or later but s\/o [shout-out] to my close circle who reached out, checked in, visited &amp; or sent flowers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 6 Jun, 2026 10:09 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1443,15408,109829,1559,181,42834,15974,9180,224612,134,1364,101,424,3523,111,139,69,46449,133688,8244,12860,312,6661,28465,109828,213,49519],"class_list":["post-464684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-about","tag-almost","tag-biles","tag-called","tag-details","tag-dying","tag-emergency","tag-experiences","tag-gymnastics","tag-health","tag-her","tag-left","tag-life","tag-medical","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-olympian","tag-providing","tag-recent","tag-revealed","tag-says","tag-scare","tag-scariest","tag-simone","tag-sports","tag-superstar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}