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The International Olympic Committee are collaborating on a sports documentary series about the Olympic gymnast's life, Simone Biles: Rising, Deadline reported.
Two other docuseries will also offer access Paris 2024 Olympic Games behind the scenes: Olympic Men's Basketball and Sprint. All three will premiere this summer and fall and in early 2025.
Simone Biles: The Comeback
Simone Biles: Rising follows the story of the award-winning gymnast as she prepares to return to the Olympics after she withdrew from the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo to focus on her mental health. She has been working to rebuild her gymnastics form and is now ready for the biggest competition in the world.
The first part of the series will debut in July, ahead of the Paris games. The four-episode docuseries is produced by the Olympic Channel in collaboration with the Religion of Sports. Kate Walsh will helm the show. The executive producers are Gotham Chopra, Ameeth Sankaran, Giselle Parets and Janey Miller.
Biles is the most decorated gymnast in history, and is thought to be one of the greatest gymnasts of all time. She currently has seven Olympic gymnastics medals, tied with Shannon Miller for the most by a US gymnast.
She's also the first American female gymnast to win a World medal in every event. Biles is also the first female gymnast since Daniela Silivas in 1988 to win a medal in every event at a single Olympic Games or World Championships. Last year, President Biden awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Basketball: The American game
The second, a six-episode series Olympic Men's Basketball will follow the stories of possible medalists and hopefuls in men's basketball. Teams from around the world compete in the 2024 Paris Games as well as the qualifying events.
The US national basketball team has won 19 Olympic medals, 16 of them gold, the most in the world. They lost for the first time in the 1972 Munich Olympics, taking the silver, to the Soviet Union.
The team's first of two bronzes was won for the first time in 1988 Seoul Olympics, with Soviet Union winning the gold and Yugoslavia the silver. This was the last Olympic basketball tournament when NBA players weren't allowed to participate. The Fédération Internationale de Basketball (FIBA) changed the rules in 1989 to lift that restriction, which led the Dream Team's dominance in 1992. The second bronze was won in 2004. Argentina won the gold and Italy the silver.
Higher Ground Productions and the Olympic Channel produced the series. Words & Pictures and Higher Ground Productions' Barack Obama and Michelle Obama served as executive producers. Jake Rogal serves as showrunner. The series will premiere in early 2025.
She a runner, she a track star
The third series, Sprint, will follow the story of top sprinters such as Sha'Carri Richardson, Noah Lyles and Shericka Jackson on their lives on the road and through the 2023 World Championships in the six-episode first season. In the second season, with four episodes, continues with the athletes now at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Box to Box Films and the Olympic Channel will produce the series. Box to Box's Paul Martin, James Gay-Rees and Warren Smith will serve as executive producers. The first season will debut in July.
Richardson first became known to the media in 2019 when, as a freshman at the Louisiana State University, when she broke the 100-meter NCAA Division I Championships collegiate record, at 10.75 seconds. At only 19, she became one of the 10 fastest women in history.
