--- title: Rio 2016 Olympics: Simone Biles and Simone Manuel Take Photo description: Olympic gymnast Simone Biles and swimmer Simone Manuel took a selfie together; both have earned gold medals during this Olympics. canonical: https://time.com/4450835/simone-biles-took-a-selfie-with-simone-manuel-because-its-a-great-day-to-be-a-simone/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-12T20:01:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:28.238Z og:title: Simone Biles Just Took an Amazing Selfie With Simone Manuel og:description: #Blessed og:url: https://time.com/4450835/simone-biles-took-a-selfie-with-simone-manuel-because-its-a-great-day-to-be-a-simone/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddd29ab152706bf6/6988a23897cdffe43f6ad6e0/rio-2016-olympics-simone-biles-simone-manuel-selfie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1365 og:image:height: 768 og:image:alt: rio-2016-olympics-simone-biles-simone-manuel-selfie og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Simone Biles Just Took an Amazing Selfie With Simone Manuel twitter:description: #Blessed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddd29ab152706bf6/6988a23897cdffe43f6ad6e0/rio-2016-olympics-simone-biles-simone-manuel-selfie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Simone Biles Took A Selfie With Simone Manuel Because It's A Great Day To Be a Simone > Sponsored content. 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[Simone Biles](http://time.com/4446944/simone-biles-rio-2016-olympics-gymnastics-gold/) is a 19-year-old U.S. gymnast [who recently won two gold medals](http://time.com/4449366/simone-biles-wins-womens-gymnastics-all-around-gold-in-rio/) — one for the [women’s team all-around](http://time.com/4450219/rio-2016-olympics-simone-biles-final-five-kelloggs-box/) and the other for the individual all-around; she is also [arguably the best gymnast of all time](http://time.com/4448896/simone-biles-rio-2016-olympics-gymnastics-vault-beam-gold/). [Simone Manuel ](http://time.com/4449687/simone-manuel-gold-rio-2016-olympics-swimming/)is a 20-year-old swimmer for Team U.S.A. who won the 100-meter women’s freestyle on Thursday night, [marking the first time an African-American woman has won an individual Olympic gold medal for swimming](http://time.com/4449636/michael-phelps-rio-2016-olympics-gold-medals-lochte/). Suffice it to say that it’s a great day to be a Simone, a fact that both Simones are well aware of and subsequently took a glorious selfie to acknowledge this. > [](https://twitter.com/Simone%5FBiles/status/764153195048398849) How much do you want to bet that Simone will be the most popular baby name in 2017? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4450835/simone-biles-took-a-selfie-with-simone-manuel-because-its-a-great-day-to-be-a-simone/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4450835/simone-biles-took-a-selfie-with-simone-manuel-because-its-a-great-day-to-be-a-simone/"},"headline":"Simone Biles Took A Selfie With Simone Manuel Because It's A Great Day To Be a Simone","datePublished":"2016-08-12T20:01:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:28.238Z","description":"#Blessed","url":"https://time.com/4450835/simone-biles-took-a-selfie-with-simone-manuel-because-its-a-great-day-to-be-a-simone/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","Simone Biles"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddd29ab152706bf6/6988a23897cdffe43f6ad6e0/rio-2016-olympics-simone-biles-simone-manuel-selfie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltddd29ab152706bf6/6988a23897cdffe43f6ad6e0/rio-2016-olympics-simone-biles-simone-manuel-selfie.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"rio-2016-olympics-simone-biles-simone-manuel-selfie","caption":"(Photo by Alex Livesey/Getty Images; Photo by Adam Pretty/Getty Images)","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4450835/simone-biles-took-a-selfie-with-simone-manuel-because-its-a-great-day-to-be-a-simone/","name":"Simone Biles Took A Selfie With Simone Manuel Because It's A Great Day To Be a Simone"}}]}] ```