Episode 2: Simone Biles

Laughter Permitted with Julie Foudy

Julie Foudy

Sports

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Laughter Permitted with Julie Foudy makes its way to the World Champions Centre in Spring, Texas, where four-time Olympic gold medalist and gymnastics GOAT Simone Biles trains. Simone sits down with Julie to talk about the 2016 Rio Olympics and what life has been like since. They go into the current state of USA Gymnastics and its newest president, and talk about what really went down during the 2018 world championships when Simone won the all-around with a kidney stone. Simone's mom, Nellie, also joins the conversation, with her own hilarious take on Simone's successes in the gym and attempts at adulting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there party people! Julie Fowdy here! Long-sign my friend Lynn O'Zowee! Wow!
0:07.2	Whaaaaaaay! Ow!
0:09.4	Hey Julie! Hi, Lynn!
0:12.0	Okay, I am super duper. Did I say super duper? Pumped about our guest this week.
0:19.2	Because we have what many consider to be the greatest gymnast ever, as an ever.
0:27.8	I think it's undisputed, right? Simone Biles is in the house and she is awesome.
0:35.7	We were actually in her house. We were in her house. Well not her house, her gym,
0:40.5	essentially is her house. So if you don't know who Simone Biles is, where the hell have you been?
0:46.2	She has four Olympic gold medals at the Rio Olympics. She actually had five,
0:52.0	four of them are gold. Isn't that brutal? We only talk about golds. I hate that about the Olympics.
0:56.2	We only talk about golds. Anyways, those four golds were the most by any American female gymnast
1:01.6	in a single Olympics. She's that record. She essentially holds every record. And then she went on
1:06.7	at the 2018 World Championship to win another four golds, which also happens to be the first female
1:13.0	gymnast ever to win four world all-around titles. How about that? As well, Lynn, I'm going to keep going.
1:21.4	She has the most world gold medals of any gender. 14. Wow. Yeah. That's how good she is.
1:30.6	So we made our way to Houston, Texas and we sat down with Simone Biles and then we had a special
1:35.3	guest join us. Her mom, Nelly. Nelly! Thanks for joining us, Nelly. So we talked about Ria. We talked
1:42.7	about her growth and finding her voice. We talked about the mess that is USA Gymnastics, of course.
1:49.4	And her biggest adulting move ever. So get comfortable listening. It's Simone Biles.
1:59.7	Thanks for tuning in today. Today's podcast is supported by your financial ally, ally bank.
2:04.9	Because if you're paying for a service, you wouldn't accept anything less than Great, right, Lynn?
2:09.5	Absolutely. Things like gyms, personal trainers, physical therapists,
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