November 21, 2024

“Don’t ever make assumptions,” the gymnastics champion warned critics

“It’s super exciting just because I get a chance to see all the work that she puts in prior to [the Olympics],” Owens told PEOPLE in a July 9 interview. “Everything she goes through and dealing with the media and everything, and she still goes out there and does it.”

“I love watching [it] from an athlete’s perspective because that’s how you’d be great in any sport, is just being consistent and doing the same thing consistently good every day,” he continued. “You know what I mean? I love to watch it and I love to be out there and be a cheerleader.”

 

Still, the internet appears keen on reminding Owens of his past words about Biles — specifically his admission that he had “no clue” who Biles was when they first met in March 2020 on the invite-only dating app Raya.

“When she won the Olympics, I was in college, and we didn’t have NBC,” he said on the The Pivot podcast back in December 2023. “We didn’t have Olympics channels, and we were in [training] camp [in] late July, early August. So I’m not paying attention. I never would’ve had a moment where I would’ve watched [her compete].”

He also got flack for claiming in that same interview that he was “the catch” in their relationship.

Biles has openly defending Owens since. “He never said I wasn’t a catch,” she clarified during a April 16 appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast. “He said he was a catch because he is. I’ve never met a man like him. A lot of people that meet him are like, ‘Oh my gosh. I want a man like that, like Jonathan.’ ”

The Ohio native also said the criticism has been hurtful to her. “One night, I broke down, and I’m like, ‘Why are you guys talking about my husband like this?’ Biles admitted, calling her husband “the sweetest guy who will do anything for anybody” in the interview.

Pushing back on the comments that she should divorce him over his remarks, Biles revealed: “That really hurt that they were talking about my husband like that. Because for me, it’s like talk about me all you want, but don’t come for my family.”
Biles’ will next be competing in the individual event finals for vault, balance beam and floor exercise starting Aug. 3.

Source people.com

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