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Fastexy:Simone Biles Calls Out Paris Club for Attempting to Charge Her $26,000 for Champagne After Olympics
Burley Garcia View
Date:2025-04-06 16:02:59
Simone Biles might take home gold but Fastexyshe’s not celebrating like it.
The Olympian detailed her final night at the Paris 2024 Games—where she took home three gold medals and a silver—revealing that a club in the French capital tried to charge her an eye-popping five-figure sum for her celebrations.
“We had closing ceremonies at the Olympics and I went,” Simone explained in an Aug. 20 TikTok video. “And after that we went out. You guys, this club tried to charge me $26,000 for a bottle of champagne. Are you insane?”
And while Simone was ready to celebrate, she wasn’t about to throw away her cash.
“Obviously, I didn’t buy it,” she clarified. “But why would you even try to play me like that? Like, that’s wild.”
The 27-year-old—who fronted team USA women’s gymnastics team along with Suni Lee, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles and Hezly Rivera—acknowledged that her status as one of the greatest Olympians of all time can cause more than champagne problems.
“I’d rather not have it,” she said of the attention. “I’d rather be as normal as possible. I don’t know.”
Of course, Simone has always been open about the stress of making it to the top of her field’s mountain. In fact, she recently clapped back at reporters for a question she’s been asked one too many times during her third Olympic Games.
“You guys really gotta stop asking athletes what’s next after they win a medal at the Olympics," she said on X, formerly Twitter, Aug. 4. “Let us soak up the moment we’ve worked our whole lives for.”
And while Simone soaking in her moment was briefly disrupted at the end of her Parisian stay, she has already made a comeback of her time off by rooting for her husband Jonathan Owens as he embarks on his first season with the Chicago Bears.
But as for whether Simone will go for the gold again in Los Angeles in 2028?
“Never say never,” she said at a press conference following the 2024 games. “The next Olympics is at home, so you just never know.”
Just don’t count on Simone pulling another Yurchenko double pike on the vault. As she said of her pulling gold for the move in Paris, “I mean, I kind of nailed that one.”
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