How Simone Biles’ Family Celebrated Her Medals After Paris Olympics (Exclusive)

What better way to celebrate your daughter winning four medals at the Paris Olympics than a dinner cruise down the Seine?

That’s what Simone Biles‘ parents, family and friends were doing Monday night after the superstar gymnast finished her sixth and final event of the 2024 Games. The fleet of them — 14 in total who flew out to France to support Biles, 27, in her comeback at these Olympics (minus Biles’ husband, Jonathan Owens, who had to leave early to get back to NFL training camp) — cheers-ed to the now 11-time medalist, the most decorated U.S. gymnast in Olympic history.

Biles’ mom, Nellie Biles, speaking to PEOPLE on Aug. 4, says that the plan was “to eat and toast” to their champion — “We’ll just talk and talk and relive the whole thing,” she says — though “not with Simone, unfortunately.”

“She still goes back to the [Olympic] Village,” Nellie explains, adding that Simone would be stacked up with press obligations on Monday night.

At that point, they’d only been able to see Simone off the competition floor once so far, at a brief celebration after she and Team USA secured gold in the team final. And they “FaceTime and chat, pretty much on a daily basis,” her mom says.

But on Tuesday, she’ll finally get to see her daughter for some one-on-one time, “and that’ll be good,” Nellie says with a big smile.

That’s when Nellie, along with Simone’s dad Ronald Biles, her sister Adria Biles and more of their family, can finally sit down and recap the gymnast’s record-breaking week, which included golds in the team, all-around and vault finals, and a silver medal in the floor final. Simone did all of that while leading the “Golden Girls” of Team USA — Suni Lee, 21, Jordan Chiles, 23, Jade Carey, 24, and Hezly Rivera, 16 — and being an advocate for mental health.

For more on Simone Biles’ golden Olympics from Jonathan Owens and her mom Nellie Biles, pick up a copy of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.

Simone, who had to withdraw from her main events at the 2020 Tokyo Games due to the “twisties,” came back to the Olympics this year with a new mindset, thanks to regular therapy (she shouted out her therapist at nearly every post-medal press conference in Paris for their sessions that morning) and calming practices like mediation, which she was snapped doing on the sidelines before her events.

“Those times were really dark and stressful times,” Nellie says of Tokyo. “To work through that and be in this place where she enjoys doing what she wants … this is rewriting her story. It’s rewriting it on her terms because she is in this place that she really perhaps wished she would have been for years.”

Nellie says she’s in awe of Simone’s accomplishments these Games.

“It’s just been an unbelievable week,” she says. “I know we came here with our own expectations, but the expectation was whatever, we do want her to medal, but not putting any stipulations on what medals that she will get. And I mean, three golds — we’re just elated.”

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