Simone Biles Seemingly Responds To Former Teammate’s Controversy

Simone Biles is at all times going to talk her thoughts.

MyKayla Skinner, a former olympic gymnast and 2020 Olympic vault silver medalist, just isn’t impressed with the expertise pool in gymnastics nowadays. In a now-deleted YouTube video, Skinner seemingly referred to as out Suni Lee, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles and Hezly Rivera, who’re all set to characterize Workforce USA together with Simone Biles in Paris.

“In addition to Simone, I really feel just like the expertise and the depth simply isn’t like what it was once,” MyKayla mentioned.

“The ladies simply don’t have the work ethic,” she continued, occurring to reference the U.S. Heart for SafeSport, a nonprofit group, serving to to finish abuse in athletics. “And it’s onerous too due to SafeSport. Like, coaches can’t get on athletes they usually must be actually cautious what they are saying.”

“Which, in some methods, is admittedly good, however on the identical time, to get to the place it is advisable be in gymnastics you do must be, I really feel like, slightly aggressive and slightly intense,” Skinner mentioned.

MyKayla has since deleted the video and apologized, taking to her Instagram Story on July 3, saying she’s “sorry for something that acquired out of context or appeared hurtful.”

“I really feel like loads of you guys had misinterpreted or misunderstood precisely what I used to be that means or had mentioned,” she continued.

Nonetheless, her feedback reached Workforce USA, which, after all, contains her former teammate, Biles. And although Simone was the one one saved from Skinner’s critiques, she nonetheless doesn’t appear completely satisfied about how MyKayla spoke about her present teammates.

On July 3, Biles posted a cryptic publish on Threads, writing, “Not everybody wants a mic and a platform.”

Whereas she didn’t point out her former teammate by title, it positively looks as if her publish was in response to Skinner’s controversial feedback.