Jordan Chiles Is ‘Hungry for More’ After Winning Back-to-Back Gold in Uneven Bars at NCAA Championship (Exclusive)

Fresh off every other NCAA gold medal, Jordan Chiles says she’s “hungry for more.”

In a brand new interview with PEOPLE, the 24-year-old U.S. gymnast says she relishes profitable the person NCAA Women’s Gymnastics gold medal in asymmetric bars ultimate month and vows to go back for extra subsequent season.

“It definitely was an amazing experience,” says Chiles, who additionally received NCAA gold in asymmetric bars in 2023 earlier than taking 2024 off to organize for the Paris Olympics. “I’m one of the only athletes that’s ever won back-to-back event titles on bars. So, I think it was really cool to see that I made history again and that I had that opportunity. It just makes me hungry for more. If I can do it twice, maybe I can do it three times, four times, as many times as my body allows it. I really had fun with it and I wouldn’t change the world for anything that happened.”

Chiles, who spoke with PEOPLE to announce her new partnership as a psychological well being ambassador for CorePower Yoga, additionally unfolded about her plans for competing within the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

“It’s on my mind,” Chiles says. “It’s not something that I just let go. Obviously, you know, I just did Paris and I went straight into school. So, I think being able to just take it day-by-day, month-by-month and year-by-year. We have three more years until then, so we’ll see what happens. But it’s not completely out of my head. I still think about it.”

Chiles referred to as it “a valid question,” whether or not she and longtime U.S. gymnastics teammate Simone Biles will go back for every other Olympic pageant. “I like to wonder,” the UCLA junior says. “I mean, we came back for two and I came back for another one. [Simone] came back for a third one. So, it’s not a bad question.”

But at this time, Chiles is taking a breath. 

Chiles, who was once a core member of the 2024 Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Team, says she’s “excited” about changing into the brand new face of psychological well being for CorePower Yoga.

“I’m really excited,” Chiles says in regards to the partnership. “This campaign and this whole mental awareness and being able to bring strength and mentality together and being able to bring that relief and that ‘Stress Free Day’ of yours, and just letting yourself go. I think it’s amazing that they chose me, because that’s literally me almost every day.”

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Chiles tells PEOPLE she and her UCLA teammates are taking a shuttle to Miami to have a good time the season and to unwind. For the two-time Olympic medal winner, it appears like the primary probability in years to in reality “just enjoy life.”

“As a college student, it definitely can be very overwhelming,” says Chiles, explaining she’ll take greater than a month off from coaching following the NCAA season. “I think it’s just, well, since Paris it’s been crazy. But I’ve been enjoying it, for sure. Now that the college season has come to an end, I think, you know, it’s time for Jordan to relax herself. I’ve been going for a very long time.”

Even when Chiles is taking day without work, she’s nonetheless operating. Between the bronze medal controversy in Paris and taking house every other NCAA gold ultimate month, Chiles launched her debut memoir, opening up about her existence and profession for the primary time.

“I felt so relieved,” Chiles says in regards to the ebook’s free up previous this 12 months. “I felt like, ‘Okay, well now I get the ability to tell my story how it’s supposed to be told, because a lot of people like to put out narratives and had things in their heads that they thought were true and weren’t. So, being able to actually tell my story how it’s supposed to be told, and I get to let the whole world know, it was an amazing feeling. It was really like, I cried because I was like, ‘Oh my gosh. Like, my book is out!’ Like, my story from since I was born all the way until I was, you know, 23 years old at the Paris Olympics, everything like that. Like, that’s my life. I just put my life in a book! It was just crazy. I was very happy for myself.”

Chiles, who now and then has have shyed away from talking publicly in regards to the medal controversy, says “it wasn’t a scary thing” to in the end open up in regards to the incident, which ended in her being compelled to forfeit the bronze.

“I wanted the world to know who Jordan Chiles is and is trying to become,” Chiles says. “It definitely was, you know, ‘Y’all want to know how everything turned out? I’m gonna give it to you.’ So, I think it was more of a relief, because there were some things that I had to read, and hearing them over again, it just reminded myself, ‘Wow, Jordan, like, you’ve gone through a lot, but look at you! You’re accomplishing so much. You’re, you’re doing so much within your life! And you get to experience so much more. Yes, you had trauma yesterday, things that happened to you, but at the end of the day, you get to wake up and live another day.’ So, it was a relief, wow, I actually did it. Look at me go!”