Overview
- The gymnast revealed on Instagram Stories on Saturday that she experienced a medical emergency that left her briefly in hospital and that she “almost died.”
- She shared photos of hospital wristbands and a screenshot of an elevated resting heart rate near 126 bpm but declined to describe the specific cause.
- Biles confirmed in a reply on X that the incident was health-related and thanked friends and family for visits and flowers as she rests at home.
- Her representatives did not immediately respond to media requests for comment and her husband, NFL safety Jonathan Owens, was away at Colts practices when the event occurred.
- The disclosure comes against a backdrop of prior public health and mental health decisions by Biles and could affect her timeline for any future return to competition, including deliberations about the 2028 Olympics.