"Nothing sets your heart on fire like being so determined for a goal and you to have one chance at it."
That was Simone Biles' mindset during the Paris Olympics, and Netflix is taking fans back to the Games with the return of the Simone Biles Rising docuseries. While the first two episodes were made available before the 2024 Olympics, the streaming company released the trailer for the third and fourth episodes Thursday:
The next two episodes will premiere on Oct. 25 and take fans behind the scenes as Biles adds to her illustrious resume with more medals at the 2024 Games.
That means inside looks at her training process, what she was thinking during the competitions, her family that includes Chicago Bears safety Jonathan Owens and her overall perseverance to further cement herself as the most decorated gymnast in history.
As the trailer hints at, there will also be a focus on the calf injury she had to fight through to take home more medals in Paris.
To Biles' credit, she battled through the injury and captured gold in the women's team event, women's all-around and women's vault competitions while also adding silver in the women's floor exercise.
After she won four gold medals and a bronze in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and a silver and bronze medal in the 2020 Tokyo Games, she now has 11 Olympic medals to her name.
Much of the focus in the first two episodes was about Biles' journey back to the sport after she withdrew from multiple events during the 2020 Olympics citing mental health. That means her success in Paris was something of a full-circle moment for the legend, and Netflix was there to capture the action as it unfolded.
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