Jason Kelce paid tribute to US women’s rugby sevens star Ilona Maher in Paris as her team picked up bronze at the 2024 Olympics on Tuesday.
The former Philadelphia Eagles star and his wife Kylie spent the day cheering for the Americans across competitions in the French capital.
After a long day of supporting their countrymen at the games, Kylie posted a hilarious clip of Jason on her Instagram story.
The video shows her husband looking spent on a chair, gripping a stack of cups in one hand and his phone in the other while holding a rugby ball and a miniature volleyball between his left forearm and torso.
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Kelce also sported a USA hat, a rugby jersey with the athletes’ signatures, and a button-down draped in American colors and Maher’s face printed in different places.
‘Yes, that’s @ilonamaher on his shirt,’ Kylie captioned. ‘When you finally sit down after all the excitement…’
The clip was scored by Jelly Roll’s newly-released track ‘I Am Not Okay’. She also listed the American victories for the day, including men’s volleyball’s 3-2 win over Germany and USA women’s gymnastics bagging gold in the artistic finals.
Maher and her team started the day with a 24-12 semifinal loss to New Zealand but bounced back and beat Australia 14-12 to secure a podium finish.
The All Blacks would lose to Canada in the gold medal game.
On a more impressive note, Simone Biles and the USA women’s gymnastics team secured gold in team competition.
With Biles at her show-stopping best, the Americans’ total of 171.296 was clear of Italy and Brazil and the exclamation point of a yearlong run in which Biles has cemented her legacy as the greatest ever in her sport and among the best in the history of the Olympics.
Besides Biles, teammates Suni Lee, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, and Hezly Rivera contributed to the redemption story in Paris.
