Simone Biles Seemingly Claps Back at MyKayla Skinner After Gold Medal Win in 2024 Olympics

Simone Biles seemingly clapped backmost astatine MyKayla Skinner aft she and nan remainder of USA’s women’s gymnastics squad brought location nan golden badge astatine nan 2024 Olympics.

“Lack of talent, lazy, Olympic champions,” Simone, 27, wrote via Instagram connected Tuesday, July 30.

The image Simone shared showed herself, Jordan Chiles, Suni Lee, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera holding nan American emblem while celebrating their win.

Fans quickly noticed that Simone’s caption seemed to beryllium throwing shadiness astatine MyKayla, 27, and her comments astir nan women’s gymnastics squad successful June. Several group applauded Simone’s caption successful nan comments.

“It doesn’t get much iconic than this.. She f’d astir n recovered retired fr. Feels for illustration I request to apologize conscionable to redeem my first name,” McKayla Maroney, a erstwhile Olympic gymnast, wrote.

Simone’s husband, Jonathan Owens, chimed in, “F AROUND AND FIND OUT.”

“Mic drop,” added erstwhile Olympian gymnast Nastia Liukin.

MyKayla competed alongside Simone successful nan 2020 Olympics, but opted not to effort retired for this year’s team. During nan Olympic trials, nan Arizona autochthonal made immoderate remarks that ruffled immoderate feathers successful nan gymnastics community erstwhile she talked astir nan differences she claimed to spot pinch this year’s team.

“Besides Simone, I consciousness for illustration nan talent and nan extent conscionable isn’t what it utilized to be. I mean, obviously, a batch of girls don’t activity arsenic hard. The girls conscionable don’t person nan activity ethic,” MyKayla said during a YouTube video. “A batch of girls don’t activity arsenic hard. It’s hard, too, because of SafeSport. Coaches can’t get connected athletes which successful immoderate ways is really bully but astatine nan aforesaid time, to get to wherever you request to beryllium successful gymnastics you do person to beryllium … a small aggressive, a small intense.”

MyKayla’s remarks didn’t spell complete good pinch respective fans arsenic good arsenic Jordan Chiles’ mother, Gina Chiles, Simone, and others who called retired nan 2020 Olympian.

“Whoa. She really said that retired large and posted it. That’s something,” Gina wrote via X connected July 3.

Simone noted via Threads that “not everyone needs a mic and a platform” connected nan aforesaid day.

One instrumentality wrote, “THIS CAPTION WINS A GOLD MEDAL,” while different added, “The shadiness of it each you amended GOAT!”

However, MyKayla has since apologized for nan remarks and said that her comments were “misunderstood.”

“A batch of nan worldly I was talking astir wasn’t ever needfully astir nan existent squad because I emotion and support each nan girls that made it and I’m truthful proud of them,” MyKayla said via her Instagram Stories nan week of July 5. “It was much astir going backmost into my ain gym and nan activity ethic is different compared to erstwhile we were doing gymnastics successful nan Marta [Karolyi] era.”

Marta, who was nan erstwhile nationalist squad coordinator for USA Gymnastics, allegedly forced nan athletes to travel strict rules and forbid them from asking questions astir her method, according to nan Associated Press successful 2018.

“I’m not sticking up for Marta aliases saying what she did was good,” MyKayla continued successful her apology. “I’m conscionable saying it was different. So sorry for thing that sewage retired of discourse aliases seemed hurtful; I emotion those girls and I’m earnestly truthful happy for them truthful I would ne'er do thing to make them consciousness otherwise.”