Olympic Feud Between Simone Biles and Mykayla Skinner explained
Recent public conflict involving Olympic winner Simone Biles and her teammate Mykayla Skinner involved both Star of Netflix's docuseries Simone Biles Rising, bile is competing in her third Olympic Games in Paris 2024. Along with colleagues Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey, Hezly Rivera, and Suni Lee, biles took first in the Team All-Around Event. Along with another gold medal in the August 1, 2024 Individual All-Around Event, she brought home As of the time of writing, biles is the most decorated gymnast in history having thirty World Championship medals and nine Olympic medals.
Olympic History Explained by Simone Biles and Mykayla Skinner
Together for the United States at the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games, which were canceled due to the worldwide epidemic, biles and Skinner competed. With exception of Rivera, every member of the 2024 Olympic champion U.S. Women's Gymnastics team was also teammates with Skinner in 2021. Breaking the gold medal trend begun in the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Skinner, Biles, and the 2021 U.S. team finished second in Tokyo and brought home the silver medal. Following what is known as the "twisties," Biles left the Team All-Around event as documented in Simone Biles Rising.
In her absence, Skinner ranked second in the vaulting section of the Women's All-Around event in her support of the team's silver medal effort. Among the Olympic medals Skinner would earn in her gymnastics career, the 2021 silver medal would be the only one Originally picked as an alternate, Skinner and Biles first became partners at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Before calling it quits on professional gymnastics following the end of the 2021 Olympic Games, Skinner also earned multiple NCAA Championship medals and World Championship medals. Biles carried on her career to rank among the best athletes of Olympic history.
What Mykayla Skinner Said About Gymnasts From Team USA Before the Olympics 2024
After the Olympic trials in late June, Skinner posted a since-deleted YouTube video in which she freely criticised the 2024 U.S. women's gymnastics Olympic squad, sparking online animosity between her and Biles. In the video Skinner remarked, "Besides Simone, I feel like the talent and the depth just isn't like what it used to be." This comment targeted newcomer Rivera as well as three of Skinner's previous colleagues, Chiles, Carey, and Lee. Skinner went on, "Many girls do not work as hard....Simply said, the girls lack work ethics.
Leading American team member and best Olympic gymnast of all time, Biles obviously heard Skinner's remark and seemed to clap back on an Instagram post honoring the gold medal achievement of the 2024 squad. Under the title "Lack of talent, lazy, olympic champions," biles uploaded a picture of the 2024 Team All-Around Olympic champs. Many users on the internet swiftly read Biles' caption as a clear reply to Skinner's remarks. Commenting on the post, Lee, who recently finished third in the Individual All-Around contest, said, "Put a finger down if Simone Biles just ended you."
How Team USA & Simone Biles Responded to Comments Made by MyKayla Skinner
Emphasized by Biles' gold and Lee's bronze in the Individual All-Around on August 1, biles and her 2024 colleagues made the most impact by earning gold medals in the Team All-Around event. Skinner apologized for her remarks multiple times and posted support for the 2024 Olympic champion squad on social media, however a post from Biles on X (Twitter) and an Instagram Story post from Chiles revealed that Skinner blocked Biles on Instagram. Skinner lately informed People that her remarks on the YouTube video were not "always necessarily about the current team, because I love and support all the girls that made it and I'm so proud of them." August 3 and 5 will see Simone Biles competing once more in Paris.
