This Ain’t Texas, But Beyonce Is Still Taking Over Paris!
Beyoncé brought her star power to the 2024 Olympics, making a sensational appearance during the Friday, July 26, opening ceremony. Decked out in a patriotic Thom Browne leotard, silk taffeta varsity opera coat, and matching cowboy boots, the 42-year-old icon introduced Team USA in their official team announcement video.
“Hello girls,” Beyoncé quipped as the camera panned to Simone Biles and her artistic gymnastics teammates. The gymnasts greeted the Grammy winner with awe before she turned her attention to the male athletes competing in tumbling events.
“Everybody enjoying the show? Oui Oui, Paris,” Beyoncé asked, then tweaked the lyrics from “YA YA” off her latest album, Cowboy Carter. “We snappin’ / Toms please / We wanna welcome you to the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.” She continued, “On behalf of Team USA, put them hands together / We clappin’ … T-E-A-M U-S-A.”
Beyoncé showcased Team USA’s elite athletes, including Biles, 27, Tara Woodall, Katie Ledecky, and more. “These hopes and dreams, these superstars [who] represent us,” Beyoncé gushed. “The people of this big, bold, beautiful, complicated nation. All rooting together for them. Come on, you’ve gotta love Noah [Lyles] and Sha’Carri [Richardson]? The fastest man and woman on the planet; they’ll race the world any time [and] any place.”
She gave special shout-outs to swimmers Caleb Dressel and Ledecky, before highlighting Biles. “And I know you know my girl Simone,” the acclaimed vocalist added. “Born to fly, destined to inspire. We’ve got superstars and we’ve got legends. We’ve got big dreamers who fought their whole lives to get here [and] who gave up everything for one shot and made it.”
“That pride and that joy? That’s what gets me about this time and that’s what makes me believe in this team. That’s why I cannot wait to see what they pull off in these next 16 days,” Beyoncé concluded.
The 2024 Olympics in Paris kicked off with Team USA’s delegation cruising down the Seine River, with basketball legend LeBron James and tennis champ Coco Gauff carrying the American flag. The first gymnastics competition, the women’s qualifier, is set for Sunday. Biles’ mom, Nellie, shared on the Today show that Simone is feeling great and ready to compete after her remarkable comeback from the “twisties” during the 2020 Tokyo Games.
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