Simone Biles is off to a dominant start to 2025 – continuing her impressive run frmo 2024 when she added three more gold medals at the Paris Olympics, brining her total to seven.
While she won’t win an Olympic gold medal this year, she’s off to a pretty good start to 2025. Earlier this year she traveled with husband Jonathan Owens to South Africa for their honeymoon where they spent nearly two weeks on safari. Just a few weeks later, Biles joined Tom Brady’s Religion of Sports, a production company, as one of the board of directors.
A month later, she landed a coveted spot in Time magazine’s “The Most Influential People of 2025” list. Her longtime teammate and three-time Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman wrote her profile.
Here’s what Raisman wrote about the seven-time gold medalist:
Simone Biles is a gem—one of a kind, forged by relentless hard work and polished by her own determination. She shines with a brilliance that sets her apart.
Simone dominates gymnastics, performing skills that push beyond what was once thought possible. Her routines are so difficult, my teammates and I used to joke that we were all competing for second place. Even as the GOAT, she continues to push herself—defying the very notion of limits. With five signature skills, she has etched her name into the sport.
Simone has faced—and withstood—mounting expectations, pressures, and adversity, which seem to intensify each year. Through it all, she has embraced her vulnerability, while refusing to let it define or limit her. She is both deeply human and undeniably superhuman—a combination that makes her impact profound. She inspires us to believe that we, too, can persevere. That we, too, can shatter limits.
Simone has changed lives by bringing mental health and athlete safety to the forefront. She has transformed gymnastics—and even sport itself. But her greatest legacy may be ensuring a better future for those who follow.
Time‘s list was broken down into six categories: artists, icons, leaders, titans, pioneers and innovators.
Biles fell under pioneers.
