Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles are letting everybody know the way their viral podium second got here to be.
The U.S. teammates lit up social media on Monday as photographs of them bowing to Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade made the rounds. Biles and Chiles captured silver and bronze within the ground ultimate of the ladies’s gymnastics competitors as Andrade gained gold, turning into the primary gymnastics podium that includes all Black athletes in Olympic historical past.
“She’s an icon and a legend herself, so I really feel like being acknowledged is what everybody ought to do with regards to someone who’s put within the work,” Chiles mentioned of Andrade in a presser following the occasion.
