Simone Biles Scores a "Pretty Little Liars" Set Invite After Winning Olympic Gold

Simone Biles finishes floor routine with gold wrapped up

Best week ever! Pretty Little Liars fan Simone Biles has been invited to visit the set of the hit Freeform show by creator I. Marlene King. The showrunner tweeted at the Olympic gymnast after she scored the gold during the womens individual all-around on Thursday, August 11.

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Hey @Simone_Biles! @imarleneking wants you & the #FinalFive to come to PLL set when you get back - are you in? the shows Twitter account read on Thursday, along with a video of King, 54, personally asking the medalist to come by.

Gold medalist Simone Biles of the United States celebrates on the podium at the medal ceremony for the women"s individual all-around on day 6 of the Olympics at Olympic Arena on Aug. 11, 2016, in Rio de Janeiro. Amin Mohammad Jamali/Getty Images

Hey Simone! I heard youre a big PLL fan, King says in the video. Well, we are huge fans of yours and everybody there. Were so proud of what youre doing in Rio come see us as soon as you get home and bring your friends!

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The athlete didnt hesitate to accept the invitation.

YES X27238833, Biles responded.

The 19-year-old gold medalist, who gained a bevy of new fans (including Zac Efron!) after she declared on Twitter, Im not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps. Im the first Simone Biles, also got a shout-out from PLL star Shay Mitchell.

You go girly, the actress tweeted at her on Thursday. Biles, along with her fab final five teammates, captain Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas, Madison Kocian and Laurie Hernandez,also secured the gold during the team all-around competition on Tuesday, August 9.

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Watch the video above for a recap of Biles megawin, as well as Team USAs other big moments from the Summer Games.

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Captivating photo shows Simone Biles" amazing concentration while flipping upside down over the four-inch wide ...

Simone Biles tumbles her way to a gold medal for Team U.S.A.

Of all of the gravity-defying stunts gymnasts pull, their seemingly impossible moves on the four-inch-wide balance beam are particularly daunting.

Lest anyone think it"s easy, flipping upside down on the beam is not only athletically challenging it requires intense concentration.

A snapshot of Simone Biles mid-flip, staring intensely at the beam while hovering just inches above it, during the women"s team finals proves how ridiculous these athletes are.

Look at that concentration!

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Aerial photos of the beam show how small the gymnasts" margin of error is.

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Do not try this at home.

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Kim Kardashian Wishes Simone Biles Luck at the Olympics, Says North Started Gymnastics

Simone Biles - Vaults 1 & 2 - 2016 P&G Gymnastics Championships - Sr. Women Day 2

USA! USA! Kim Kardashian wished Olympian Simone Biles good luck at the Olympics in a sweet video message posted by NBC Olympics on Friday, August 5, and revealed that her own little one might have athletic aspirations.

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Hey, Simone! the 35-year-old reality star says in the clip. Its Kim Kardashian West, and I just wanted to wish you the best of luck in the Olympics. Were all rooting for you back at home.

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Biles, 19, excitedly tweeted back her thanks. @KimKardashian Thank You So Much!!! By the way Im obsessed with North! So adorable, the athlete wrote.

She just started gymnastics! Maybe she can show you some moves? the proud mom of two replied. In addition to North, 3, Kardashian and her husband, Kanye West, are also parents to son Saint, 8 months.

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Biles will join an all-star team of athletes at this years Rio Olympics, including Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez and Madison Kocian.

Kim Kardashian and Simone Biles JB Lacroix/WireImage; Ronald Martinez/Getty Images

Little North has shown off her dance skills in numerous Snapchat and Instagram videos that mom Kim has posted over the years. In May, North and her cousin Penelope showed off their salsa dance moves while the family vacationed in Cuba, and in March, Kardashians little girl dressed up as a hula dancer.

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Last year, Kardashian excitedly shared a number of photos of North with her hair up in a tiny bun, calling her daughter my tiny dancer. North has also been taking piano and art lessons.

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The Fine Line: What Makes Simone Biles the World"s Best Gymnast ...

Simone Biles - Floor Exercise - 2016 P&G Gymnastics Championships – Sr. Women Day 2

PRODUCED BYRodrigo De Benito Sanz, Alicia DeSantis, Alexandra Garcia, Mika Grndahl, Evan Grothjan, Taige Jensen, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Bedel Saget and Joe Ward

INTERVIEWSLarry Buchanan, Leslye Davis, Juliet Macur and Bedel Saget

VIDEOEditing: Alexandra Garcia, Taige Jensen and Meghean Felling; Footage: Larry Buchanan, Leslye Davis, Bedel Saget and Joe Ward; Color: Taige Jensen and Ben Laffin; Graphics: Mika Grndahl, Evan Grothjan, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas and Jeremy White

AUDIOTaige Jensen and Michael Cordero

PHOTOGRAPHYCover: Photograph by Leslye Davis; Illustration by Grant Gold

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTIONWilson Andrews, Danny DeBelius, Alexandra Eaton and Grant Gold

ADDITIONAL FOOTAGEUSA Gymnastics and Ron Biles

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Olympics: Simone Biles on top again at US gymnastics championships

Simone Biles - Vault 1 (end view) - 2016 P&G Gymnastics Championships - Sr. Women Day 2

Turning each rotation into a showcase for her unmatched talent, Biles posted an eye-popping score of 62.900, well clear of runners up Aly Raisman and Laurie Hernandez and everybody else on the plane.t

"It"s all about peaking for the right moment," Biles said. "I think this is a stepping stone toward it."

The gap the 19-year-old Texan has created between herself and the rest of the world during a winning streak that"s nearly three years and counting shows no signs of closing. If anything, it"s widening considering her nearest competitors are the four women who will join her on the plane to Brazil in August.

"There"s no one that can catch Simone," said Raisman after her best night since her return to competition in March, 2015.

Not in the U.S. and certainly not in the rest of the world.

Biles was nearly flawless from the start, her beam routine a 45-second showcase of precision with nary a wobble or even a peak at the floor 4-feet below. Her score of 15.7 is a significant step up from the 15.388 she posted at world championships last fall, an event she won easily. Her floor routine includes a series of hand flourishes that seems as if she"s saying "follow me" and a series of tumbling passes that are the gymnastics version of Michael Jordan at the height of his "airness" prime.

Asked to nitpick her performance and Biles paused. It"s not that she"s perfect gymnastics doesn"t do perfect anymore it"s just that she"s as close as anyone has been in a long, long time. While she pointed to nearly imperceptible miscues during her beam dismount and her first vault, even she had to admit there was little else that went wrong.

"I was pretty happy with it," Biles said.

So was Karolyi, who will have plenty to think about over the next two weeks as she tries to find the right four women to join Biles on the plane to Brazil in August. The one thing that"s not on her mind is the mental state of her star.

"Usually these very talented girls don"t have patience," Karolyi said. "They"re explosive and full with energy but sometimes they can be annoyed with doing the very same routine."

Biles hardly looked bored while putting on a show no one else can match. And she wasn"t the only one who looked ready for the stage that awaits in Brazil.

Raisman wanted to "vomit" while starting out on beam, where she won bronze in London four years ago. She didn"t exactly look nervous while putting up a 15.150, something she credited on the poker face she inherited from her father. After beating herself up for months after a poor showing by her standards anyway at world championships last fall, Raisman is right back where she was in 2012, maybe even a bit better.

Defending Olympic champion Gabby Douglas, who won the American Cup and in Italy earlier this spring, wasn"t quite as sharp. She wobbled twice on beam and needed a world-class save to stay on at one point. Yet she did to avoid a major deduction, a trait Karolyi welcomes nearly as much as a flawlessly executed routine. Still, her score of 58.9 needs to improve on Sunday to remove any lingering doubt.

"I just got a little bit relaxed and let things slip," she said. "I need to stay aggressive. The confidence level is there."

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