U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Team Mark Gold Win With Kanye West Speech Video
Winning appeared actual good on the U.S. ladies’s gymnastics group once they took residence the group gold in Paris on Tuesday (July 30). It sounded good too, as group members Simone Biles, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee and Hezly Rivera spent a lot of the day luxuriating within the golden glow of the champion’s circle with a few of their favourite tunes.
The celebration moved to Lee’s TikTok quickly afterwards, the place the improbable 5 flexed by miming alongside to Kanye West’s notorious 2005 Grammy Awards speech for his greatest rap album-winning opus, The College Dropout. Staring into the digicam and gesturing, Lee and Chiles mouthed, “Everybody wanted to know what I would do if I didn’t win,” earlier than Lee swiped the scene and reduce to the entire squad holding up their medals and mouthing Ye’s cocky exclamation level, “I guess we’ll neger know.”
Lee additionally posted a TikTok during which she confirmed off her gold medal whereas dancing in her room to the TikTok remix of Azaelia Banks’ “Luxury.” The celebration simply saved rolling on, together with in one other video posted by Biles on her TikTok, during which the ladies jokingly take crunching bites out of their medals. There was additionally one other clip during which Lee and Chiles revisited considered one of their favourite celebration jams by doing coordinated choreo to Megan Thee Stallion’s “Cognac Queen” in a callback to an earlier video during which they danced to the tune after getting by way of qualifiers.
Chiles and Megan have clearly cast a connection. Earlier this month, Chiles shouted out the Houston MC after she made the reduce for the U.S. Olympic squad, telling reporters, “This was for you uncle and Megan, I’m going to the AHH-lympics!” Megan later despatched Chiles a congratulatory bouquet of flowers and known as the gymnast “my girllll” in a publish on X.
The crew had loads to crow about after cruising to the rostrum to gather their group ultimate gold at Bercy Arena in Paris, a stellar bounce-back from their group silver in Tokyo in 2021 after famous person Biles was pressured to withdraw from the group ultimate after affected by a scary bout of the “twisties.”
See the U.S. ladies’s group flex beneath.
