After questioning the work ethic of this 12 months’s staff of U.S. Olympic gymnasts, MyKayla Skinner is asking Simone Biles for assist in stopping the hate she’s getting on-line.
The previous Olympic gymnast made her opinion on the present expertise pool very clear in a now-deleted YouTube video, seemingly calling out Suni Lee, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, and Hezly Rivera, who’re all representing Crew USA alongside Simone Biles in Paris.
“Moreover 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, happening to reference the U.S. Heart for SafeSport, a nonprofit group, serving to to finish abuse in athletics. “And it’s laborious too due to SafeSport. Like, coaches can’t get on athletes and so they need to 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 need to be, I really feel like, a little bit aggressive and a little bit intense,” Skinner mentioned.
MyKayla ended up issuing an apology quickly thereafter, taking to Instagram on July 3 and saying she was “sorry for something that acquired out of context or appeared hurtful.”
“I really feel like a number of you guys had misinterpreted or misunderstood precisely what I used to be which means or had mentioned,” she continued.
Following her feedback and her subsequent apology, the U.S. girls’s gymnastics staff took house the gold medal within the staff closing on July 30.
Biles had the right response to her former teammate’s feedback, posting a photograph along with her teammates following their gold medal win and writing in her caption: “lack of expertise, lazy, olympic champions â¤ï¸ð¥ðºð¸.”
After all, this solely resulted in MyKayla getting dumped on much more, with followers loving Simone’s clapback and her insistence on standing up for her pals. B
ut, a couple of week later, Skinner returned to Instagram to ask for Biles’ assist, claiming she and her household had gotten demise threats for the feedback she made about Crew USA.
“I sincerely hoped that this subject wouldn’t must be revisited however sadly issues have actually gotten out of hand recently,” she started in her video. “And it’s one factor to disagree with me concerning one thing I’ve mentioned or a degree I used to be attempting to make, nevertheless it’s one thing else totally when that turns into cyberbullying and even worse,” Skinner mentioned in her Instagram video. “Watching individuals cheer on the bullying — which has led to threats of bodily hurt to me my husband and our daughter — is disgusting. So please at this level, I’m simply asking for it to cease for the sake of my household as a result of sufficient is sufficient.”
Skinner continued, “If Simone really believes that I referred to as our staff lazy and missing expertise and if that’s actually how she feels, I’m actually heartbroken over it. However not simply heartbroken as a result of it isn’t what I really feel and even how I beforehand mentioned, however as a result of Simone’s newest submit and others that adopted it fueled one other wave of hateful feedback, DMs, articles and emails. Hate that features demise threats to me my household and even my agent. My household and my pals don’t need to be caught within the crossfire right here. They’ve achieved nothing.”
“To Simone, I’m asking you instantly and publicly to please put a cease to this,” Mykayla pleaded. “Please ask your followers to cease. You might have been an unbelievable champion for psychological well being consciousness and lots of people want your assist now. We’ve been attacked in ways in which I’m sure you by no means meant. Your efficiency, the staff’s efficiency and the Olympics basically needs to be a time that we help each other.”
Simone has but to reply to MyKayla’s video or her pleas for assist.
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