Team USA has Throw it at the 2005 Grammy Awards to celebrate their shiny new Olympic medals. The women's gymnastics team — Simone Biles, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee and Hazley Rivera — won gold yesterday and have been basking in the glory on social media ever since.
In a popular TikTok post created by Lee, the five recalled Kanye West's infamous Grammy Awards speech, which has become a widely shared meme in the years since. In 2005, West won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album for his album “The Best Rap Album.” College dropoutsOn stage, the rapper admitted he thought the audience might expect him to do something weird.
“I know everyone asks that question — they want to know, ‘I know he’s going to go crazy, I know he’s going to do something crazy,’” he said. “Everyone wanted to know what I would do if I didn’t win. I guess we’ll never know.”
The video shows the gymnasts using West's voice in two parts, the first without their medals as they chant, “Everyone wanted to know what I would do if I didn't win.” The video then cuts to a video of the team with their medals, smiling and saying, “I guess we'll never know.”
Biles posted a celebratory video of Team USA pretending to bite their medals to the sound of the clatter, while Chiles danced to Megan Thee Stallion's “Cognac Queen” alongside Lee.
The women's gymnastics team won the gold medal in the women's gymnastics team final on Tuesday at the Bercy Arena in Paris. The win was especially poignant because the team had earned silver at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics after Biles withdrew from the team final after suffering from “zigzags.” “I think we all had something to prove from Tokyo. And tonight we did just that,” Biles said after the event.
Biles opened up about the mental pressures of competing in the 2021 Olympics in her new four-part Netflix documentary, Simone Biles Rising“I realized I wasn’t done after the performance I put in in Tokyo,” Biles told reporters at the recent U.S. Olympic Trials, where she won the all-around. “This is definitely a redemption tour for us. I feel like we all have more to offer.”
Chiles is a longtime Megan Thee Stallion fan, and recently received a bouquet of flowers from the rapper after the Olympic trials. “I wasn’t expecting that,” Chiles said. rolling stone“When my brother brought her in, I was like, ‘This girl can’t possibly send me flowers!’ And I started to tear up because I felt like someone recognized the hard work I put in. She’s definitely my sister in Houston, for sure.”
“This is a redemption tour for the four of us on the Olympic team,” she added. “Of course, we want to be able to come back with gold medals. But we’re testing ourselves. This is something we wanted so badly. So why not do it? Why not go out and just be ourselves? I don’t feel overwhelmed. I feel like I’m in the right place at the right time. But I love being back here.” [be with] “My Mickey ears and gold medal smiling next to the Disney Castle in Paris.”
