Simone Biles unleashes a powerful statement following MyKayla Skinner’s criticism of the Olympic Team. Dive into the full scoop below! šš
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 womenās 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 yearās roster during a two hour watch party on YouTube.āBesides Simone,ā Skinner said. āI feel like the talent and the depth just isnāt what it used to be. I mean, obviously, a lot of girls donāt work as hard. The girls just donāt have the work ethic.āMyKayla Skinner is really out here advocating for abusing athletes and thinking sheās something special when she only made the team as an individual (she didnāt 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. āNot 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 couldāve made that Olympic team.āSkinner, 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 sheās something special when she only made the team as an individual (she didnāt participate in team AA) and she only competed because Simone withdrew. Girl, shut up.
āNot everyone needs a mic and a platform,ā Biles posted on Threads.Gina Chiles, mother of Jordan Chiles posted on X, āWhoa. She really said that out loud and posted it. Thatās somethingā¦.āSkinner posted an apology on her Instagram Stories on July 3. āHey 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.
āA lot of the stuff that I was talking about wasnāt always necessarily about the current team because I love and support all the girls that made it and Iām 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.āāAnd Iām not sticking up for MĆ”rta or saying what she did was good,ā Skinner continued. āIām 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.āĀ