2024 Paris Olympics: Sports world reacts to Simone Biles and Team USA’s gold medal in gymnastics – MASHAHER

Team USA strolled to a commanding win at the women’s gymnastics team final on Tuesday, beating the next-closest team by nearly six points. Led by Simone Biles, the team of Biles, Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera retook gold after a silver-medal finish in Tokyo — and received praise and congratulations from around the sports world as a result.

Much of the praise went to Biles, whose dominant performance made her the most-decorate U.S. Olympic gymnast of all-time. Biles now holds eight medals, including five, and has a chance to win more in individual events this week.

Former Olympic gold medalists Aly Raisman and Laurie Hernandez — who competed together with Biles in the 2016 Olympics in Rio — expressed their congratulations online. Both Raisman and Hernandez are in Paris in a journalistic capacity, with Hernandez working as a commentator for NBC and Raisman acting as a contributor for Olympics.com.

WNBA star A’ja Wilson, who is at the games chasing an eighth straight Olympic gold with USA basketball, wrote about the event on social media, calling the Team USA gymnasts “goated & golden.”

Country star Keith Urban congratulated the United States for their victory as well, with a photo from inside the event. Urban’s wife, actor Nicole Kidman, was also spotted in the audience at the team final in Paris, cheering on the U.S.

There were plenty of other celebrities in the house on Tuesday, with a pair of NFL players cheering on Biles: recently retired Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, and Biles’s husband Jonathan Owens.

Legendary sportscaster Dick Vitale chimed in with his congratulations, calling Biles the GOAT and including a clip of Biles’s gold-clinching floor routine.

Chiles and Lee also received a shoutout from their former universities — UCLA and Auburn, respectively — where they competed in NCAA play before turning their attention to the Olympics.

And for a little social media presence of their own, Team USA posted a TikTok on Suni Lee’s account.

“Everyone want to know what I would do if I didn’t win,” Lee and Chiles lip-synched, before Lee covered the camera and revealed the team holding their gold medals. “I guess we’ll never know.”

With the team medal secured, there’s still more chances for Team USA to pick up hardware in these Olympics. Biles and Lee will compete in the all-around final on Thursday, and multiple members of the team will compete in individual events this weekend.