‘I’d never watched the Olympics’ – Evans on gymnastics fameImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Evans celebrates her historic gold medal for Wales at the 2026 Commonwealth GamesByTom BrownBBC SportPublished13 August 2026, 07:46 BSTUpdated 12 minutes agoRuby Evans did not appreciate the scale of what she was about to do back in the summer of 2024.Competing at the Paris Olympics as a 17-year-old catapulted her into the spotlight.Two years on – with a Commonwealth gold medal, 127,000 Instagram followers and almost two million likes on TikTok – the gymnast is of one of Britain’s rising stars.
“I didn’t actually think I’d get that many followers after the Olympics,” she told BBC Sport.
“Because I was so young, I’d never really watched an Olympics. I didn’t actually realise how many people watched the Olympics.
“I remember just opening my phone [after competing] and it wouldn’t even turn on, there was just so much going on.”
