U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Olympic Team Celebrate Gold Medals With Cheeky Throwback Kanye West Grammy Speech
Winning looked real good on the U.S. women’s gymnastics team when they took home the team gold in Paris on Tuesday (July 30). It sounded good too, as team members Simone Biles, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee and Hezly Rivera spent much of the day luxuriating in the golden glow of the champion’s circle with some of their favorite tunes.
The party moved to Lee’s TikTok soon afterwards, where the fantastic five flexed by miming along to Kanye West’s infamous 2005 Grammy Awards speech for his best rap album-winning opus, The College Dropout. Staring into the camera and gesturing, Lee and Chiles mouthed, “Everybody wanted to know what I would do if I didn’t win,” before Lee swiped the scene and cut to the whole squad holding up their medals and mouthing Ye’s cocky exclamation point, “I guess we’ll neger know.”
Lee also posted a TikTok in which she showed off her gold medal while dancing in her room to the TikTok remix of Azaelia Banks’ “Luxury.” The celebration just kept rolling on, including in another video posted by Biles on her TikTok, in which the women jokingly take crunching bites out of their medals. There was also another clip in which Lee and Chiles revisited one of their favorite celebration jams by doing coordinated choreo to Megan Thee Stallion’s “Cognac Queen” in a callback to an earlier video in which they danced to the song after getting through qualifiers.
Chiles and Megan have clearly forged a connection. Earlier this month, Chiles shouted out the Houston MC after she made the cut for the U.S. Olympic squad, telling reporters, “This was for you uncle and Megan, I’m going to the AHH-lympics!” Megan later sent Chiles a congratulatory bouquet of flowers and called the gymnast “my girllll” in a post on X.
The crew had plenty to crow about after cruising to the podium to collect their team final gold at Bercy Arena in Paris, a stellar bounce-back from their team silver in Tokyo in 2021 after superstar Biles was forced to withdraw from the team final after suffering from a scary bout of the “twisties.”
See the U.S. women’s team flex below.
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