Simone Biles unleashes a powerful statement following MyKayla Skinner’s criticism of the Olympic Team. Dive into the full scoop below! đđ
Simone Biles is heading to the 2024 Paris Olympics after winning the all-around competition at the U.S. Gymnastics Trials in Minneapolis. Joining Biles on the womenâs roster, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, and newcomer Hezly Rivera.After the squad was announced, MyKayla Skinner, who won a silver medal on vault at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics,
chimed in with her thoughts on this yearâs roster during a two hour watch party on YouTube.âBesides Simone,â Skinner said. âI feel like the talent and the depth just isnât what it used to be. I mean, obviously, a lot of girls donât work as hard. The girls just donât have the work ethic.âMyKayla Skinner is really out here advocating for abusing athletes and thinking sheâs something special when she only made the team as an individual (she didnât participate in team AA) and she only competed because Simone withdrew. Girl, shut up.
After seeing three girls suffer devastating injuries during the trials, Skye Blakely, Shilese Jones, and Kayla DiCello, Skinner said she wished she made a comeback this year. âNot saying anything to the girls that got injured, but if I could come back, I think I would be able to do it. And I think I probably couldâve made that Olympic team.âSkinner, who also criticized SafeSport for limiting how tough coaches can be, faced immediate backlash for her comments, including from Biles.MyKayla Skinner is really out here advocating for abusing athletes and thinking sheâs something special when she only made the team as an individual (she didnât participate in team AA) and she only competed because Simone withdrew. Girl, shut up.
âNot everyone needs a mic and a platform,â Biles posted on Threads.Gina Chiles, mother of Jordan Chiles posted on X, âWhoa. She really said that out loud and posted it. Thatâs somethingâŚ.âSkinner posted an apology on her Instagram Stories on July 3. âHey guys just wanted to pop on here really quick cuz I know we did the re-cap on YouTube and I feel like a lot of you guys had misinterpreted or misunderstood exactly what I was meaning or had said.
âA lot of the stuff that I was talking about wasnât always necessarily about the current team because I love and support all the girls that made it and Iâm so proud of them. It was more about going back into my own gym and just the work ethic is different compared to when we were doing gymnastics in the Marta (Karolyi) era.ââAnd Iâm not sticking up for MĂĄrta or saying what she did was good,â Skinner continued. âIâm just saying it was different. So anyway, sorry for anything that got out of context or seemed hurtful; that was never my intention and seriously, throughout the video.âÂ