Simone Biles Is Bazaar Espana December 2025 WOTY Sport Icon Award Winner AOC Fashion

December is the month for Harper’s Bazaar country-specific WOTY [Women of the Year] 2025 awards for women who inspire. AOC opens with Harper’s Bazaar Spain’s [IG] selection of Simone Biles for the Sport Icon Award.

Claudia Laukamp styles Biles in images by JUANKR [IG]. / Hair by Fernando Torrent

Simone Biles: Champion for Women

Simone Biles has 11 Olympic medals — 7 gold, with 2 in Paris 2024 — and 30 World Championship medals, making her the most decorated gymnast in history.

Harper’s Bazaar Spain emphasizes that the 2025 WOTY winners have shared traits that include empathy, sorority, overcoming and the defense of the rights of the most vulnerable. All the winners have embraced their vulnerability and “turned their wounds into feats of courage”.

In the case of Simone Biles, she is a model of women who have embraced their vulnerability and “turned their wounds into feats of courage”.

Twisties Twice

From dealing with two — not one — cases of “the twisties” as we learned just recently; to the absolutely savage way Biles was treated by men when she withdrew from Tokyo Olympics for fear of breaking her neck; to Simone Biles testifying before Congress on September 15, 2021, in the Larry Nasser case of her own sexual abuse by the doctor of women gymnasts — Simone Biles is the inspiring type of woman Harper’s Bazaar Spain is honoring this December.