Simone Biles is not ready to explain the medical scare she hinted at during a trip to Belize with Jonathan Owens, even after describing it as one of the scariest experiences of her life. On Sunday, the seven-time Olympic gold medalist told a follower in the comments of an Instagram post, “Not ready to talk about it just yet.”
The post that drew the exchange was about the Belize trip with Owens, but he was not there at the time because he was away for offseason workouts with the Indianapolis Colts. Earlier this month, Biles posted an Instagram Story appearing to show a hospital bracelet and wrote that “almost dying wasn't on my bingo card earlier this week,” setting off the speculation that followed her into Sunday’s comments.
Biles did not give a medical explanation, and that gap is now the center of the story. She has said only that the experience was “one of, if not the scariest experience of my life,” while also signaling that she plans to address it in depth at some point down the road. For now, the public is left with a rare silence from an athlete who is usually direct about her life online.
The detail that Owens was missing from the trip matters because it narrows the moment without resolving it. He signed a one-year deal with the Indianapolis Colts in the spring, and his absence was tied to those offseason workouts, not to the episode Biles was describing. That leaves a single unresolved question hanging over her comments: what happened during that week in Belize that made her write about almost dying, and when will she decide to say more?
