The 19-year-old Biles’ medal count is now five: four gold and one bronze.
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If you’ve been watching this year’s Rio Olympics, you have definitely heard Simone Biles and Simone Manuel’s names over and over. “We’ll see”, she said.
The gymnasts got to meet actor Zac Efron while taping an interview for the “Today” Show – Simone Biles even landed a kiss on the cheek from the actor – then talked about the experience in a Facebook Live session.
Now, if you had just won four gold medals and one bronze at your first Olympics, wouldn’t you want to celebrate by blowing off some steam with Zac Efron, the person whose cardboard cutout you had in your bedroom growing up?
Simone Biles has won medals on everything single event she has participated in the last three years.
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The visit from Mr Efron was apparently organised by a host of US Chat Show Today Hoba Kotb. Meanwhile, all the other teammates sat in silence looking on their phones, trying not to laugh, because they know how serious she is about Efron.
But she told him, “Hey Zac Efron, I think we need you at the team finals; because we’ll all get to be there”.
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And now he’s a huge fan of Biles and her teammates, adding he felt compelled to hop on a plane bound for Rio, “Their story just blew my mind”.
