The United States women’s gymnastics team will bring back a gold medal from the Paris Olympics. On Tuesday, the team of Simone Biles, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Suni Lee, and Hezly Rivera wrapped up a gold in the women’s artistic team all-around, marking the third time in four Olympic Games that the U.S. won gold — the team took home silver back in 2021.
While there are still individual medals that need to be handed out, the Americans were able to roll to the team title, as they won by nearly six points over the team that won silver, Italy. And after it was all over, Biles got asked in a press conference by retired American gymnast Aly Raisman if this team has a nickname. They do, although there was a little consternation around revealing this.
Aly Raisman asks Simone Biles and the team what their nickname is.
“F.A.A.F.O.”
F**k around and find out pic.twitter.com/RJjZ5OWcQg
— Kendall Baker (@kendallbaker) July 30, 2024
“Eff around and find out,” Biles said, leading to the team’s nickname becoming F.A.A.F.O.
Now, I think it’s a very good nickname, but Biles decided to take to Twitter a little later in the day and offer up something a little more family-friendly.
okay on the real though, the official team name is
golden girls
s/o to cecile
— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) July 31, 2024
In fairness to Biles, “Golden Girls” is a pretty sick nickname, too, and I’m very excited to see this get put on t-shirts to celebrate what the team accomplished.