Posted on 08/21/2016 1:56:43 PM PDT by drewh
If anyone deserves a beach day, it's Simone Biles and her Final Five teammates.
The US gymnasts traded their leotards for bikinis and enjoyed a day out at Rio's Barra da Tijuca beach Saturday.
Biles, Aly Raisman and Madison Kocian part of the Final Five team that took nine medals in Rio frolicked on the sand and took a dip in the ocean. Laurie Hernandez posed for a poolside picture with Biles earlier in the day. And Gabby Douglas, 20, who was not at the beach, posted a picture on Instagram of herself golfing with friends.
Biles, 19 who will be flag bearer for Team USA at the closing ceremony captured all the action on Snapchat and Instagram.
'Hey! Beach! Finally,' Raisman, 22, said in a snapchat video posted by Biles.
Together, the Final Five have won the most medals by any women's team since the Soviet Union took 10 at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
Biles is only the second US gymnast ever to serve as flag bearer and the first woman to do so. Alfred Jochim carried the flag into the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The Final Five won the all-around gold medal in the team exercises. Individually, Biles won gold in the vault, floor exercise and individual all-around, and a bronze in the beam event. Raisman won silver in the floor exercise and women's individual all-around. Kocian, 19, took silver on the uneven bars while Laurie Hernandez, 16, brought home silver on the beam.
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Cute girls.
Please tell me they’re not flying home to campaign for Hillary.
Stay out of the water.
Seriously, my daughter is a D-1 athlete, so I am around female athletes a lot. Swimmers, track athletes and gymnasts are all incredibly ripped.
Nice abs.
And, I hope they enjoy themselves. This is the culmination of years of work.
They are sweet kids..Simone Biles and Laurie Hernandez both have strong religious beliefs..Laurie tweets all the time passages from the Bible, same goes for Simone..Aly is a proud Jewish girl, her performances are always in tribute to the Israeli athletes murdered in Munich
I suspect Gabby Douglas is fine with having another black girl get the extreme close up attention that she received a few years ago. The girls have earned every bit of praise, and more, but it’s not easy being center stage in that situation and holding on to who you really are inside.
I hope they enjoy themselves safely for a day or two. Better beaches in the U.S., though.
Can't think of anyone better! Psst - those six-packs? They are not just for boys! Lots and lots of very hard work on their parts for YEARS!
FYI: Simone is on the "Special K" cereal boxes, I bought one - first cereal in years! If they put one of these pictures on it, CaCHING!
That picture is terrible...shouldn’t they properly be in full burqa?
Their hips and breasts never develop.
There has to be a physiological reason.
Why do female gymnasts look like 12 yrs old boys?
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Lady curves are made of fat. If that fat gets burned and crowded out by muscle tissue, you end up with more of a male look.
Give those young women some time out of the gym and give them a baby, they’ll look like other women.
It's a developmental deficiency.
They are structurally immature at 17.
Lady curves are also supported by wider pelvis bones. Not all women have the classic “child bearing hips” (bones) and I suspect the ones who do, do not compete as well against women with narrower hip bones. Just a thought.
Because of all the exercise which also causes many women athletes not to have monthly periods.
Did she win the most medals? Whomever wins the most should be the flag barer.
The decision on who carries the American Flag out on closing day is done by the votes of the athletes before the games are even over. But Biles has four golds and a silver and is widely considered the best female gymnast ever. It’s a good choice.
Besides, at least she isn’t wearing a burka.
Good for them !!
My daughter was an elite volleyball player through high school. I saw first hand at that level what sacrifices she made. I can not imagine what a D-1 level and Olympic level athlete goes through.
These ladies (and I emphasize ladies) deserve every minute of fun, relaxation and the opportunity to be just a normal young woman for as long as they want.
I agree.
My daughter has a blast in college, but the demands are high. Somehow, just because of her personality, which she gets from Mrs Gamecock, she always seems to be in the middle of where the real fun is.
I think that would be awfully hot, and then why does one go to the beach?
She is the best gymnast of all time. Looking forward to seeing her successor. Gonna be a heck of show. What an athlete.
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