The bitter feuds of Simone Bylers and Mikaira Skinner are calling for retired gymnasts to end \ ‘because they call the Olympic champion ending \’ cyber bullying.
Simone Billes played an Olympic game to remember and added three more gold and silver medals to her already impressive Olympics.
At the same time, he became the most decorated American gymnast in history, and has solidified his position as one of the best in sports. But her successes and victories at the games this summer were overshadowed by a bitter feud that developed between her and former friend and teammate Mikayla Skinner.
All the drama unfolded after Team USA’s gold medal win in Paris, when Simone Biles couldn’t help but stand up for her Olympic teammates while taking shots at her former teammates. Biles inspired the United States to win the gymnastics team final on Tuesday for the first time since 2008 with 171.296 points, enough to beat closest rivals Italy and Brazil. And just hours later, the 27-year-old took aim at former teammate Mikayla Skinner while celebrating her current team’s historic success on Instagram. Biles shared a photo of herself, Jordan Childs, Hezly Rivera, Jade Carey and Suni Lee holding the American flag with the caption, “Mediocre & Lazy Olympic Champions.” Of course, the sarcastic comment was a criticism of Skinner, who caused controversy by questioning the work ethic and dedication of this year’s Olympic team. \ ‘In addition to Simona, I feel that talent and depth are not as before. this month.
Despite the fact that she was excluding her from this brutal evaluation, Birz seemed to attack her with a friend of her ex -gymnastics and attacked her at that time with a social network. The American Olympic legend took a mild swipe at Skinner, writing on Threads: “Not everyone needs a microphone and a platform.” She and a number of other gymnasts, including Chiles, Lee and Carey, also blocked Skinner on social media following her comments. Though they may not have been best friends, Biles and Skinner had known each other for some time and hit it off after both competed for the U.S. at the 2014 World Championships in Nanning.
Mikayla excluded Simone from the criticism, saying the team lacked “work ethic.”
While Biles wasn’t criticized, she wasn’t too pleased with her former teammate’s comments.
And they both won medals at the Tokyo Olympics seven years later, despite Biles having to withdraw from several events due to “twisterze” – a mental block in which gymnasts lose control of their bodies as they twist in the air. Skinner won silver on vault after Biles faded into the background, one of her biggest accomplishments as a gymnast after also winning four world championship gold medals.
However, three years later, the two gymnasts, who once considered each other friends and teammates, are now in frigid conditions. When Biles implicitly criticized Skinner earlier this month, Skinner retracted her remarks, claiming they had simply been taken out of context.
“I feel like many of you misunderstood what I meant/said,” she said on Instagram. “A lot of what I said doesn’t necessarily apply to the current team because I love and support all the girls who have been successful and I’m very proud of them. “It was more about being back in my own gym and having a different work ethic than what we had.