The second season of Netflix’s Simone Biles: RISING is upon us and the GOAT is excited to share more seminal moments of her career with the fans. The first season showed how Simone’s family stood by her during her tribulation in Tokyo. And now, the next episodes are expected to document how the Biles family never fails to show up when one of them needs some backing up.
At the premier of the new episodes of the Netflix docu-series, Access Hollywood caught up with the Biles family members on October 24 to talk about what should the fans expect from the show. When the interviewer asked Nellie Biles about the performance of the family for the show, she candidly said, “I think I did a great job,” and her two daughters Simone and Adria couldn’t hold back their laughter at the response.
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But the 7x Olympic gold medalist thinks it’s exactly this kind of sporting mentality that makes the documentary all the more entertaining. “I think everyone stayed true to their authentic self, especially with all the cameras around,” Simone said with a beaming smile as Nellie, Adria, and Ronald encircled her. Noting how the family loves to bond of silly quirks, the Houston native said, “can’t be mad at it, it’s the Biles fam.”
Simone’s sister Adria also had a few things to say about the former’s achievements. On asked how she felt seeing the Olympian ruling the gymnastics world, Adria said with a beaming smile, “there are no words to describe it proud is an understatement.” Talking about the upcoming episodes of the show, Biles said what makes it different from other shows is that these are “personal films“, whereas most other documentaries only depict outside perspectives. Considering the intimate details that were seen in the previous episodes of RISING, Simone’s take on the show isn’t unfounded either.
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One of the major highlights of the past episodes of the Netflix documentary was the terrible experience that Simone had at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. After an impressive display of skills at the Japanese capital, the final proved to be too big of a hurdle for the WCC gymnast to jump over. A case of the “twisties” shook Biles to the core as she stood in front of the vault apparatus, and she decided to pull out at the last moment.
The Texan informed her coach Cecile Landi about the situation and the latter assured her that Simone needed to do what she thought was right. “I felt like a flying rag doll,” Biles later told Business Insider and noted how she had to call her mom from halfway across the globe to get her vote of approval, and Nellie didn’t disappoint.
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“They will do their best without you. I don’t want you going out there if you’re not in a good place, and you don’t need to go out there and hurt yourself. That’s just not right,” Simone’s mother calmed her daughter to the best of her abilities. Nellie also mentioned that the 2021 Olympics was the first time that the family wasn’t physically present to cheer for her daughter owing to the COVID-19 regulations, and that took a tremendous toll on Simone’s mentality going into the tournament.
The last episodes of the RISING documentary showed the telephonic conversation between Nellie and Simone and how the Biles family members made the gymnast realize that she wasn’t being selfish enough to prioritize her mental health. In the previous episodes of the show, Simone also revealed how her husband an NFL star Jonathan Owens helped her to get over the troubling times. “…he was just really like a shoulder to lean on, ’cause he saw, like, those dark times after Tokyo,” Biles was heard saying. Now as the next episodes arrive, what are you looking forward to the most? Tell us your expectations from the show with a comment!
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