Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Simone Biles is the greatest American Olympic gymnast of all time, and she solidified that notion at the Paris Games with four medals in the two-week span.
Biles’ backstory is not one that is told too often. Her birth mother, Shanon Biles, was unable to care for the gymnast and her three other children as they were placed into foster care.
Biles’ maternal grandfather, Ronald, and his second wife, Nellie Cayetano Biles, began to care for the children and later adopted them. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Olympian Simone Biles of Team United States poses on the "Today" show set on Aug.
6, 2024 in Paris. (Kristy Sparow/Getty Images) Ronald Biles told the Houston Chronicle in 2016 that his daughter struggled with substance abuse and drug addiction.