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Olympic gymnast Simone Biles shared on Instagram that she recently experienced a significant health scare. She described the event as one of the most frightening experiences of her life.

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Biles reveals health scare after 'almost dying' Seven-time Olympic champion Simone Biles has revealed she suffered a health scare, describing the experience as "almost dying".

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American Biles, the most decorated gymnast of all time, made a series of Instagram story posts about "one of, if not the scariest experience of my life" and said she was … BBC News flipped this story into Top Stories•41d

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Olympic gymnast Simone Biles shared on Instagram that she recently experienced a significant health scare. She described the event as one of the most frightening experiences of her life.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 4 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “American Biles, the most decorated gymnast of all time”
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Wikipedia explicitly states that her 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals make her 'the most decorated gymnast in history'.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — The most decorated gymnast of all-time
https://krdo.com/news/2026/04/29/simone-biles-has-left-the-d…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — The most decorated gymnast of all-time has previously stated she’ll be at the Games in “some capacity.”
https://krdo.com/sports/cnn-sports/2026/04/29/simone-biles-h…
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Claim 2: “Simone Biles has revealed she suffered a health scare, describing the experience as "almost dying"”
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Multiple independent web search results from June 2026 report that Simone Biles shared news of a health scare and described the experience as 'almost dying'.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 7, 2026 ... ... scare on Saturday, an experience she said included “almost dying ... Simone Biles reveals she had a health scare and describes 'almost dying'.
https://www.facebook.com/NBCBayArea/posts/united-states-gymn…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 7, 2026 ... Simone Biles pulled out of the Olympic gymnastics team final because of a medical issue, USA Gymnastics announced this morning; Simone had said ...
https://www.facebook.com/WFSB3/posts/simone-biles-reveals-sh…
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 9, 2026 ... Three years ago at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Simone Biles was likely anticipating her crowning moment. Instead, she had to withdraw from the ...
https://www.facebook.com/rollingout/posts/simone-biles-is-op…
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Claim 3: “Seven-time Olympic champion Simone Biles”
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Wikipedia explicitly confirms Simone Biles' status and her 11 Olympic medals. Multiple web search results also refer to her as a seven-time Olympic champion (referring to gold medals).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gymnastics events have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1896, but women's events first appeared in 1928. American female gymnasts have participated in every Olympic Games since 1936, except for …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Simone Arianne Biles Owens (née Biles; born March 14, 1997) is an American artistic gymnast. Her 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals make her the most decorated gymnast in history. She …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Biles
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Golden Girls was the artistic gymnastics team that won the team gold medal for the United States in the women's team competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. The five members of the team …
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Claim 4: “made a series of Instagram story posts about "one of, if not the scariest experience of my life"”
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While claim 2 is corroborated by multiple sources, the specific detail about 'Instagram story posts' is mentioned in the context of the health scare in the first web search result for claim 0, but the specific evidence provided for claim 3 contains irrelevant results (Starbucks, other gymnasts) and does not provide multiple independent confirmations of the Instagram format specifically.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sunisa Phabsomphou Lee ( soo-NEE-sə SOO-nee; née Phabsomphou; born March 9, 2003) is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2020 Olympic all-around gold medalist and uneven bars bronze medalist and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunisa_Lee
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Simone Arianne Biles Owens (née Biles; born March 14, 1997) is an American artistic gymnast. Her 11 Olympic medals and 30 World Championship medals make her the most decorated gymnast in history. She …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Biles
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — MyKayla Brooke Skinner Harmer ( mi-KAY-lə; born December 9, 1996) is an American former artistic gymnast. She was the 2020 Olympic vault silver medalist, competing as an individual, and was an alterna…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyKayla_Skinner
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