Simone Biles Can Count Taylor Swift Among Her Millions of Fans
Gymnastics GOAT Simone Biles continues to dominate the Olympic trials, recently performing a floor routine that left everyone’s jaws on the springy trampoline floor. Including Taylor Swift’s. Biles performed it at the Olympic trials and USA Today called it “masterful.”
Biles’s 90-second routine is set to a wordless track that samples a number of songs, but the first 20 seconds are the instrumental to Swift’s “...Ready for It?” from her 2017 album Reputation.
,“Watched this so many times and still unready. She’s ready for it tho” Swift wrote on X in response to a video of the set, adding three clapping emojis, a gold medal, an American flag ,and a heart.
The two women have a lot in common. They’re both at the top of their respective games at an age when others might have counted them out (at 27, Biles is the oldest American woman to make the Olympic team since the 1950s), and both are partnered up with NFL players (Simone Biles is married to Jonathan Owens and Taylor Swift is dating Travis Kelce…you may have heard…). But most of all, they’re both workaholics who love what they do. Swift is on the second year of her marathon Eras Tour, while Biles is in Paris to prove…everything.
“Nobody’s forcing me to do it,” Biles told the press after securing her spot on the team, per ABC. “I wake up every day and choose to grind in the gym and come out here and perform for myself. Just to remind myself that I can still do it.
“I feel like success is just what I make it,” she added. “I feel like right now I’ve been successful…competing at Olympic trials and making the Paris Olympic team. So then we’ll see from there on out.” We are so very ready for it.
Originally Appeared on Glamour
