McKayla Maroney responds to Simone Biles' brutal jibe at MyKayla Skinner following Team USA's gold medal win at the Paris 2024 Olympics

USA Gymnastics royalty is picking sides successful nan Simone Biles- MyKayla Skinner feud.

Biles, on pinch Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, and Jade Carey, dominated nan section astatine nan creator gymnastic squad finals astatine nan Paris Olympics connected Tuesday, winning by astir five-and-a-half points complete Italy.

On her Instagram afterwards, Biles posted a image of nan squad pinch a sadistic caption – 'lack of talent, lazy, athletics champions' – which came arsenic a consequence to a remark Skinner posted online anterior to nan Paris Games.

In a now-deleted YouTube video, Skinner blasted nan squad of Biles, Chiles, Lee, Carey, and Hezly Rivera for not having nan correct 'work ethic.'

Now erstwhile Team USA prima and 2012 golden medalist McKayla Maroney has weighed in, and she's firmly successful Biles' camp.

'It doesn't get much iconic than this,' Maroney wrote connected Instagram successful consequence to Biles' post. 'She f'd astir n recovered retired fr.'

Maroney past joked astir sharing a moniker pinch Skinner.

'Feels for illustration I request to apologize conscionable to redeem my first name,' she wrote.

Skinner, who won metallic connected nan vault astatine nan 2020 Tokyo Olympics, has been nether occurrence for her comments astir her erstwhile teammates.

'Besides Simone, I consciousness for illustration nan talent and nan extent conscionable isn't for illustration what it utilized to be,' nan 27-year-old said connected YouTube.

'The girls conscionable don't person nan activity ethic,' Skinner continued earlier referencing nan US Center for SafeSport - a non-profit statement group up to trim intersexual and affectional maltreatment of athletes successful US Olympic sports.

'And it's difficult excessively because of SafeSport. Like, coaches can't get connected athletes and they person to beryllium really observant what they say,' Skinner said.

'Which, successful immoderate ways, is really good. But astatine nan aforesaid time, to get to wherever you request to beryllium successful gymnastics you do person to be, I consciousness like, a small fierce and a small intense.'

In nan contiguous aftermath of that, Biles clapped backmost astatine Skinner, penning connected Threads, 'not everyone needs a mic and a platform'.

Biles and a number of different gymnasts, including Chiles, Lee, and Carey, each blocked Skinner connected societal media aft her comments.

Skinner would later spell connected to apologize.

'I want to formally apologize to Team USA and to our gymnastic organization for my comments during my caller YouTube episodes of nan gymnastics Olympic trials. It was not my volition to offend aliases disrespect immoderate of nan athletes aliases to return distant from their difficult work,' Skinner's apology from July 6 read.

She continued, 'Upon reflection I was comparing nan 'Marta [Karolyi] era' to nan existent era.

'I americium coming to position that I person not afloat dealt pinch nan affectional and verbal maltreatment I endured nether Marta that possibly led to my hurtful comments. I return afloat work for what I said and I profoundly apologize.'

Skinner vanished her apology by wishing nan gymnasts luck successful Paris and that she would beryllium 'cheering you each on!'

Biles and Skinner some represented Team USA astatine a number of competitions - including astatine nan 2020 Olympic Games.

They picked up Olympic medals successful Tokyo, contempt Biles withdrawing from respective events pinch a lawsuit of nan 'twisties' - a intelligence artifact that that sees a gymnast suffer power of their assemblage during a twisting accomplishment successful midair.

But now she has her redemption: winning a 2nd squad Olympic golden and her 5th wide Olympic golden medal.

Reflecting connected nan achievement, Biles told DailyMail.com that nan unit successful Paris was different to nan past, but her acquisition helped guideline her through.

'In 2016 we were destined to triumph golden and everybody said we were destined to triumph gold, truthful whenever we went retired location we did our occupation and we did triumph gold.

'We were a small young and naïve truthful it didn't deed nan measurement that it does now. Now that I americium overmuch older and we person truthful overmuch much acquisition and we are retired present really having nosy and enjoying what we are doing.

'So I deliberation it is conscionable different and it is not to opportunity that I wasn't shocked that we won because it was still ace surprising, my first golden badge ever. It was truthful exciting. But I deliberation nan unit was truthful connected for america to triumph golden truthful we did conscionable did what we were expected to do.

'Even going into tonight, we conscionable did what we had to do, but it conscionable felt a small spot different. It was ace exciting, we had nosy retired location and we conscionable did our gymnastics.

Simone added: 'We're ace excited. We're honored to correspond nan US each clip we get connected a world shape but accomplishing that golden and that extremity was conscionable an astonishing feeling.

'I deliberation we each had thing to beryllium from Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and coming we did conscionable that.

'It intends nan world. This was our extremity going in, moreover though we didn't stock it pinch everybody because it's conscionable a individual point that we were moving on. But I deliberation for everybody it's what we came present to do. And we're ace excited to locomotion distant pinch that golden medal.'