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Simone Biles Is Wearing The Prom Dress She Never Got A Chance To Wear At The VMAs

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Fresh off their Olympics wins, most of the U.S. gymnastics team’s “Final Five” hit the MTV Video Music Awards’ step-and-repeat tonight. Unfortunately, Gabby Douglas wasn’t there (she was in the hospital earlier this weekend), but Simone Biles, Laurie Hernandez, Aly Raisman, and Madison Kocian swapped their glimmering, Swarovski-encrusted Olympic leotards for red-carpet worthy ensembles.

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It’s basically like a stand-in for prom, which most of these teen dynamos haven’t yet experienced. (They’ve been sort of busy with Olympic-caliber training and all.) For Biles, who was homeschooled, it’s particularly poignant. She opted for a beaded coral minidress from Sherri Hill, a formalwear designer best known for her elaborately embellished prom wares.

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“I’ve never gone to a homecoming; never a prom. I gave up a lot, but I made the right decision, because look what I’ve accomplished,” Biles told her mom, according to The Washington Post. Hernandez, also wearing Sherri Hill, hasn’t been to a prom, either. (Though it’s on the 16-year-old’s short-term to-do list, along with attending college.)

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Raisman likely showed Biles the ropes when it comes to prom-like dressing, due to her own experience with the rite of passage. (Back in 2012, Raisman had quite the prom-posal involving her high school’s football field and “Prom?” spelled out in Christmas lights.)

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Why shouldn’t these insanely talented superhuman athletes have an excuse to get kitted out in fancy dresses in lieu of their usual gymnastics garb for a night? It’s especially exciting for Biles to don a sparkly, prom dress — sans the actual prom.

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By: Alexandra Ilyashov