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Did Olympian Simone Biles reveal that she's pregnant and announce she will retire when she finishes competing at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, as a Facebook post said? No, that's not true: At the time of writing, Lead Stories did not find any evidence on her social media nor on credible sports news sites that Biles made such an announcement. Though the Facebook post attributed the report to FOX News, a representative of FOX told Lead Stories the network published no such report.

The claim appeared in a post on Facebook (archived here) where it was published on August 3, 2024. It opened:

JUST IN: Fox News Just Reported that America's most decorated Olympic gymnast of all time, Simone Biles Announces Retirement at 27 After Securing Gold at Paris Olympics, Reveals she is 'expecting a baby' with her husband, Jonathan Owens.

This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:

(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Tue Aug 6 13:27:15 2024 UTC)

The post claims that Fox News broke the story, however, Lead Stories did not find any such reports on foxnews.com (archived here). We reached out to Fox News about the claim. Sofie Watson, a publicist at Fox News, emailed Lead Stories on August 6, 2024, writing:

This is fake and was never reported by FOX News.

At the time of writing, the Olympic athlete has not made this announcement on her verified X (archived here), Instagram (archived here), or TikTok (archived here) accounts.

Lead Stories did a search using keywords on Google News, visible here, which found no credible documents or reporting to corroborate the claim (archived here).

We have contacted Biles' representatives and will update this article, as appropriate, when a response is received.

More Lead Stories fact checks on claims related to Simone Biles are here.

Other Lead Stories fact checks on the 2024 Olympics are here.