Simone Biles undergoes procedure one month after 'almost dying' in life-threatening health scare ⁠37%

By Collin Ward⁠52%

7/24/2026, 12:51:45 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Unattributed Quote, and Primacy Effect, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 22.3% saturation with 59 hits. Analysis detected 475 faulty-reasoning hits from 264 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 43.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠37% (13,842 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 63.20% of the article peer group.

Simone Biles is back in the hospital just weeks after “almost dying.” 
Biles posted a picture on Instagram on Thursday of her wearing a hospital gown and hair net alongside her husband and NFL safety Jonathan Owens. 
Unlike her last hospital post, the 11-time Olympic medalist seemed to be in a good mood and joked about Owens having to spend his birthday in the hospital with her. 
“His birthday but he takes me to get my procedure,” Biles said. 
The photo is one of the first public updates since Biles posted pictures of her hospital bands on June 6 during “one of, if not the scariest experience of [her] life.” 
Biles has said she values privacy and typically wouldn’t share an update like this, and did not disclose the reason for her hospital visits either time. 
Pictures on her stories from June showed hospital bracelets, flowers and a bed in which the gymnast had been resting. 
“Almost dying wasn’t on my bingo card earlier this week,” Biles wrote on Instagram. 
“This was one of, if not the scariest experience of my life, especially since Jonathan was in Indy for practices. 
Biles responded to the comments that she was sad they would think such a thing. 
“I hope you understand that life-changing experiences can shift your perspective and that you’re able to extend a little more grace to others moving forward.” 
Bile also shot back at a fan mentioning the drink she had in the video, claiming it was a non-alcoholic beverage. 
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264 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker27%attributed speech193writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 30 words • 100.0% coverageSimone Biles • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 31 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coverageSimone Biles • 14 words • 0.0% coverageSimone Biles • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 0.0% coverageSimone Biles • 25 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Simone Biles

100%flagged-word coverage
71 attributed words100% of attributed speech69% writer coverage
0%20.0%40.0%Indoctrination+35.2 ptsWriter: 0.0%Simone Biles: 35.2%35.2%Biased Writer Voice-22.3 ptsWriter: 22.3%Simone Biles: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote+6.0 ptsWriter: 10.9%Simone Biles: 16.9%16.9%Quote-first Misdirection-6.7 ptsWriter: 6.7%Simone Biles: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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