Simone Biles trolls MyKayla Skinner after Olympics gymnastics gold – NBC New York

USA famous person Simone Biles, now probably the most adorned American Olympic gymnast in historical past, received the final phrase.

Hours after her group trounced greater than a half-dozen different international locations of their quest for golden redemption, Biles posted a photograph of the Golden Ladies (their group nickname, in line 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 mentioned. “Simply discover like, I imply, clearly quite a lot of women do not work as arduous.”

“The women simply haven’t got the work ethic,” Skinner added. “And it is arduous too due to SafeSport. Like, coaches cannot get on athletes they usually should be actually cautious what they are saying. Which, in some methods is basically good, however on the similar time, to get to the place you have to be in gymnastics you do should be, I really feel like, a bit aggressive and a bit intense.”

MyKayla Skinner is apologizing as soon as once more for her feedback in regards to the 2024 U.S. Girls’s Olympic gymnastics group. 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 traces of, “not everybody wants a mic.”

In her apology earlier this month, Skinner mentioned 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.

oop I’ve been blocked 👀🫢😂

— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) July 31, 2024