USA celebrity Simone Biles, now probably the most adorned American Olympic gymnast in historical past, received the final phrase.
Hours after her workforce trounced greater than a half-dozen different international locations of their quest for golden redemption, Biles posted a photograph of the Golden Women (their workforce nickname, in accordance with her), celebrating together with a searing caption.
“Lack of expertise, lazy, olympic champions,” Biles wrote, showing to throw shade on gymnast MyKayla Skinner, whose “work ethic” feedback on Staff USA previous to the 2024 Paris Olympics went viral for all of the incorrect causes.
She later apologized – twice — and the YouTube put up has since been deleted.
In it, she criticized Staff USA’s work ethic — and the expertise pool behind Biles.
“Moreover Simone, I really feel just like the expertise and the depth simply is not like what it was,” Skinner stated. “Simply discover like, I imply, clearly plenty of women do not work as laborious.”
“The women simply haven’t got the work ethic,” Skinner added. “And it is laborious too due to SafeSport. Like, coaches cannot get on athletes and so they must be actually cautious what they are saying. Which, in some methods is de facto good, however on the similar time, to get to the place you might want to be in gymnastics you do must be, I really feel like, just a little aggressive and just a little intense.”
MyKayla Skinner is apologizing as soon as once more for her feedback in regards to the 2024 U.S. Ladies’s Olympic gymnastics workforce. Though the Olympic medalist beforehand apologized for her controversial remarks, she additional clarified them in a prolonged assertion shared on Instagram on July 6.
Biles initially seemingly responded with a put up on X alongside the strains of, “not everybody wants a mic.”
In her apology earlier this month, Skinner stated she by no means meant to harm anybody’s emotions.
Skinner was a silver vault medalist in Tokyo, stepping in for Biles. Her rep didn’t immediately respond to a request from People Wednesday, but she did post some red heart emojis in an Instagram Story video on Team USA’s win.
Later, a thinly-veiled post on X from Biles generated attention on social media, where people surmised it was Skinner.