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Simone Biles Is Visiting Belize

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - December 21, 2016

Gold-medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles visited Belize this week, making good on a promise to visit the country after the Olympics.

Biles, who was part of the gold-medal-winning team at the Rio Olympics (and also won a bronze on the balance beam), is the daughter of a Belizean mother and is a dual U.S.-Belize citizen.

After Belize’s tourism board tweeted congratulations to Biles on her victory and invited her to visit, she tweeted back, “My second home, you betta Belize we’re coming.”

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Biles will receive a national welcome on Thursday including a Grand Welcome Motorcade including representatives from some of Belize’s sporting associations.

“Simone’s success at such a young age will not only serve as an inspiration and motivation to our athletes to strive for excellence in all they do but as an inspiration and motivation to all Belizeans countrywide,” the Belize Tourism Board said in a statement.

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