Simone Biles shared that she has been blocked on Instagram by former Workforce USA teammate and Olympic silver medalist MyKayla Skinner after the gymnastics GOAT clapped again at Skinners’ earlier criticism of Workforce USA girls’s gymnastics’ in a viral Instagram publish Tuesday.
After Biles posted an image on Instagram of her and her 2024 teammates after profitable a gold medal within the girls’s gymnastics crew occasion on the Paris Olympics with the caption, “lack of expertise, lazy, olympic champions,” the five-time gold medalist posted to X Wednesday and stated “oop I have been blocked,” adopted by a number of emojis.
Biles’ teammate Jordan Chiles seemingly confirmed it was Skinner Biles was referring to on one among her Instagram tales, in response to NBC Information.
The feud between this yr’s Workforce USA girls’s gymnastics crew and Skinner, who competed with the crew in Tokyo, started earlier this yr when Skinner reportedly stated of Workforce USA, in a since deleted video, that “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.”
Skinner apologized for her feedback shortly after they went public, however it didn’t cease her former teammates from taking discover.
Biles’ Instagram publish went viral, and obtained backing by her teammates and a number of other different outstanding Olympians.
Sunisa Lee posted “put a finger down if simone biles simply ended you” and Jordan Chiles wrote “and that’s on periodt!!”
The Olympic ski medalist Lindsey Vonn commented “let the haters hate when you [redacted] go get medals” and two-time Olympic determine skating medalist Michelle Kwan wrote “4 letter phrase for all of the haters – G.O.A.T.”
As for Skinner, earlier than seemingly blocking Biles, she did publish 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 last on Thursday (SCHEDULE).
The American girls’s gymnastics crew could have received gold for the crew all-around, however the Workforce USA stars rallied round Simone Biles to have fun her fifth Olympic gold medal.