Jordan Chiles is the Olympic gymnastics team's ultimate hype woman - ESPN

PARIS — Jordan Chiles raised her right fist in the air, stared straight into a television camera and winked. Then she turned and performed a highlight reel of a floor routine, earning the third-highest score of the night on the apparatus and introducing herself to the larger sports audience as the fun, fearless kid-sister half of the Biles-Chiles duo.

When she hit her final pose, Chiles closed her eyes and choked back tears. Then she jumped up, turned to her teammates and yelled, «Let's go!» They were one Simone Biles floor routine from closing out a dominant gold medal performance in Tuesday's team final.

«To be a part of winning this gold medal after everything I've gone through has been an amazing experience,» Chiles said after the meet. «I'm proud of every one of us. This smile is always going to be smiling.»

That smile — that wink, which was trending online before the medal ceremony ended — encapsulates so much about who Chiles is as an athlete and teammate, as well as the role she has taken on here in Paris. She's confident, unbridled, uncensored and the consummate hype woman for her squad.

«That's who she is every day in the gym,» Team USA head coach Cecile Landi said after the meet. «If she's too quiet, we kind of worry.»

Chiles was the only woman on the U.S. team other than Biles who competed in all four events in Tuesday's team final. Head coach Cecile Landi said that, like Biles, Chiles knew that the highest-scoring team included her on every rotation and she was up for the job. «She loves competing,» Landi said. «She worked for today and she had a blast.»

Chiles also competed in the all-around in team qualification Saturday, hit all four routines and finished fourth overall in the standings. But because of a