{"id":91,"date":"2017-12-20T09:46:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T09:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2017-12-20T09:47:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T09:47:52","slug":"didnt-date-in-your-teens-youre-not-alone-olympic-gymnastics-champion-simone-biles-first-date-at-age-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mewetoo.com\/blog\/91\/didnt-date-in-your-teens-youre-not-alone-olympic-gymnastics-champion-simone-biles-first-date-at-age-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Didn’t date in your teens? You’re not alone. Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles’ first date at age 20"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Simone Biles has her first boyfriend Stacey Ervin
Credit: Stacey Ervin\/Instagram<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Ok, so Simone Biles was training 32 hours a week over 6 days as an Olympic gymnast, but everyone has their reasons, right.\u00a0 Biles took a year off from Olympic gymnastics training last year and got to spend some more time on the social side of life:<\/p>\n

Now the 20-year-old is trying to integrate new layers into her life beyond gymnastics. If you follow her on social media you’ve seen these photos — Simone’s first boyfriend, a fellow gymnast, Stacey Ervin.<\/p>\n

“Is it nice to be able to have that part of your life now?”<\/p>\n

“I think so,” she said. “We would have never been able to date because we are so busy in the gym. So like for my year off I went on my first date, and stuff and I was just like this is what it’s like? I mean it’s cool. I was really nervous but I feel like people learn that at a younger age so I’m a little older. So I’m like, oh what do I do? But it is good.”
\n(via ABC, “Simone Biles on training, dating and her future<\/a>“)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Balance is good.<\/p>\n

For Biles, for now gymnastics comes first, then dating, during Olympic training:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s an elite athlete and he\u2019s traveled and stuff, so he understands it,\u201d Biles tells PEOPLE at the\u00a0Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis<\/a>\u00a0Sports Legends Dinner in New York City Monday evening. \u201cWe already know in each other\u2019s lives we don\u2019t come first, and that\u2019s okay with the both of us. So we do what we need to do, and then when we come together it\u2019s fine.\u201d
\n(via People, “Simone Biles Gets Real About Dating a Fellow Elite Athlete: We Know ‘We Don’t Come First, and That’s Okay<\/a>‘”)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Biles met Ervin three years before they started dating, during the\u00a0P&G Gymnastics Championships<\/a>\u00a0(then called the Visa Championships). She once told Ervin \u201che was cute\u201d over Snapchat, but they just stayed friends for years. Then last spring, Nellie Biles (Simone’s adopted mother and biological grandmother) hired Ervin to be a coach at their family gym while Biles was performing on Dancing with the Stars with Sasha Farber.\u00a0 When Biles returned home they spent more time together and so began their romantic relationships.<\/p>\n

So there is getting out of the friend zone.\u00a0 It’s actually very nice to be in the friend zone first, don’t you think?<\/p>\n

How old were you on your first date?\u00a0 Or tbd…<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BZaW5lcF9_X\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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