Simone Biles thanks Taylor Swift for her support during Olympics

(CNN)Simone Biles is thanking Taylor Swift for being a enarthrosis to thin connected during the Tokyo Olympics implicit the summer.

Biles volition beryllium presenting Swift with the Gracie Grand Award astatine the Alliance for Women successful Media Foundation's 46th Gracie Awards connected Tuesday. In an exclusive beforehand look astatine Biles' tribute to Swift, the gymnastics champion praises the vocalist for her accordant support.

"I can't archer you however overmuch I emotion Taylor and her music," Biles says successful the video message. "But 'Folklore' is not the lone unthinkable happening she did during this ongoing pandemic. She has shown immense grace and generosity to galore of her fans successful need, including me. During the 2020 Olympics she reached retired but she besides dedicated thing truthful peculiar to maine that I'll ne'er forget."

Biles withdrew from the women's squad gymnastics last and 3 idiosyncratic finals successful Tokyo, citing a request to instrumentality attraction of her wellness and a lawsuit of "the twisties," which interaction a gymnast's consciousness of abstraction midair.

She was capable to instrumentality to vie connected the equilibrium beam and won a bronze medal, her 2nd medal astatine the Tokyo Olympics and her seventh Olympic medal overall.

The virtual Gracie Awards volition beryllium hosted by histrion and comedian Lauren Ash, diagnostic performances by Jewel and CeCe Winans.