Simone Biles’ Husband Jonathan Owens ‘SPEECHLESS’ As She Makes Olympics Team

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00:00Jonathan Owens is cheering on his superstar wife, Simone Biles.

00:29After the decorated gymnast qualified on Sunday to compete in the upcoming Paris Olympics,

00:34the NFL player took to Instagram on Monday to congratulate her, writing in part,

00:48The 28-year-old then went on to say that he's so thankful he'll get to be a part of the

00:51journey with her and can't wait to watch her in Paris.

00:54Jonathan ended his post by noting how happy he is for his wife, highlighting her third

00:58Olympic run and also added,

01:07The football star had been in the stands cheering Simone on during the U.S. Olympic team trials

01:11over the weekend.

01:37Last December, the 28-year-old caught some heat after revealing on a podcast that he

01:40didn't know who the gold medalist was when they first connected.

02:10Jonathan, I'm going to let you finish your story, man.

02:19Continue.

02:20But like I was saying, man, she messaged me, this was like a Tuesday, and we were texting

02:28back and forth and then we hung out Friday, man, and we couldn't do much as COVID happened,

02:32everything was shut down.

02:33So she came through down to Houston.

02:36She live in the suburbs, so she had to drive about 45 minutes to me.

02:40Then the rest is history, man.

02:41The Olympics begin July 26th, airing on NBC and streaming on Peacock.