Golden Gymnast Simone Biles Celebrates With Pepperoni Pizza

Team USA's Simone Biles led her team in crushing the competition at Tuesday night's gymnastics team finals, and she'll compete for more gold medals today in the individual all-around finals. What fuels this kind of athletic greatness? Pepperoni pizza, obviously.

According to an interview with ABC News, that's the go-to post-competition meal for the most decorated gymnast in history: "It doesn’t even matter if I don’t win a self-gold, after every meet I have pizza. Pepperoni pizza," she says.

World-class athletes: they're just like us! You know, except for the fact that they can execute a double back handspring off a four-inch wide balance beam without dying. And then there's this tumbling routine, too.

Of course, pre-competition the four-foot-eight gymnast eats a bit lighter: Biles tells Women's Health she usually eats Special K Red Berries (endorsement alert!) or egg whites for breakfast, presumably because cold pizza doesn't sit well when she's performing her namesake move of a double layout with a half twist.

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