Social media was already ablaze about Simone Biles’ efficiency when she helped the U.S. win an Olympic gold medal within the girls’s gymnastics staff closing on Tuesday. However Biles poured gasoline on the social chatter when she posted a sequence of 4 photographs on Instagram with a cryptic caption.

The caption? “lack of expertise, lazy, olympic champions” adopted by emojis of a coronary heart, gold medal and U.S. flag: 

The caption seems to be a not-so-thinly-veiled shot at 2020 Olympic teammate MyKayla Skinner. In a video, which has since been deleted, Skinner reportedly mentioned, “Apart from Simone, I really feel just like the expertise and the depth simply isn’t like what it was” and “the ladies simply don’t have the work ethic.”

Biles’ submit has greater than two million likes and the feedback are a must-read.

Biles’ 2024 Olympic teammates had been fast to again her up. Sunisa Lee posted “put a finger down if simone biles simply ended you” and Jordan Chiles wrote “and that’s on periodt!!”

2012 Olympian McKayla Maroney, who spells her first identify in another way than Skinner, posted “Looks like I have to apologize simply to redeem my first identify” and “It doesn’t get extra iconic than this.”

Different notable feedback got here from three-time Olympic ski medalist Lindsey Vonn (“let the haters hate whilst you [redacted] go get medals),” two-time Olympic determine skating medalist Michelle Kwan (“4 letter phrase for all of the haters – G.O.A.T”) and five-time Olympic gymnastics medalist Nastia Liukin (“midcrop”). 

Skinner didn’t straight tackle Biles’ submit, however she did submit an image of Biles and her teammates to her Instagram Story with three coronary heart emojis. 

Biles will compete for her subsequent gold medal within the girls’s all-around closing on Thursday (SCHEDULE).