“I think everyone out there, we all performed how we trained, and that’s all very special—something we have to keep for team finals and any event finals that we qualified for,” Biles said, according to CNN.
It’s been widely documented that her grandfather, Ron Biles, and his wife, Nellie Biles, adopted Simone and her sister when their biological mother was deemed unfit to raise them. As the Texas Monthly reported:
Biles was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1997 to drug-addicted parents who struggled to care for their children. Biles and her three siblings were shuffled back and forth between their mother’s house and a foster home. (Biles’s father had abandoned her mother and was never present in his daughter’s life.) When I asked her what memories she has from those days, Biles recalled that one of the foster homes had a trampoline that she and her siblings weren’t allowed to play on.
When Biles was six, she and her younger sister, Adria, were adopted by their maternal grandfather, Ron, and his second wife, Nellie, who brought them to live in their house in Spring, a prosperous suburb of 55,000 people half an hour’s drive north of Houston.
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