Simone Biles to open “Taste of Gold” restaurant at Houston airport - Gymnastics Weekly News
Plus, Rebeca Andrade on her future in the sport and a look back at Elena Grudneva from the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona
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Seven-time Olympic gymnastics gold medallist Simone Biles has her next endeavour: a new restaurant, aptly named “Taste of Gold,” inside Houston Intercontinental Airport.
The venture is in partnership with The Playmakers Group and is set to open in early 2025.
“I am a foodie at heart,” Biles said in the press release. “And our hope with Taste of Gold is to offer a beautiful dining experience that features award-winning, signature menu items with some of my favourite flavours sprinkled in for our guests.”
According to the release, Taste of Gold will celebrate Biles’s remarkable global achievements. The chef-crafted menu will feature signature food and beverage items curated by restaurant industry innovator Mark Brezinski and created to ‘wow’ every traveller.
Rebeca Andrade on her future: “It seems I have other goals and plans to follow.”
History-maker Rebeca Andrade of Brazil says she’s got more to accomplish in the sport that has made her a household name in her country.
“I thought that this year I would come here to put a full stop to my journey in gymnastics, but it seems I have other goals and plans to follow,” she wrote this week in a post on Instagram.
The 25-year-old won floor exercise gold, all-around and vault silvers, and team bronze at the Olympic Games Paris 2024. Those four medals, plus her two from Tokyo 2020 in 2021, made her Brazil’s most decorated Olympian of all time.
“What a pride to be able to look at my story and see how much I have achieved, to see that all the days of tears, pains, sadness, and also the days of joy, smiles, and achievements have taken me so far!” wrote Andrade. “Not even in my best dreams did I imagine I would become the greatest Olympic athlete in the history of my country, but God did!”
After achieving all that, she has one very important plan remaining: some R&R.
“I am super excited for my vacation, to connect even more with myself, to take great care of my body and mind, and to be an even better Rebeca for myself and, consequently, for you,” Andrade said. “My sporting cycle of 2024 was beautiful and brilliant, but my personal cycle was giant!”
From the vault…
This week, we take a look back at the compulsory routines from Elena Grudneva at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, for the Unified Team. Her top mark came on the uneven bars, where she earned a 9.850.