Suni Lee enters the fray as Simone Biles-MyKayla Skinner drama escalates: ‘Just ended you’
By Bradley Locker,
2024-08-01
The beef between former Team USA gymnasts is only deepening.
After Simone Biles shaded former teammate MyKayla Skinner in her gold medal celebration Instagram post on Wednesday, current U.S. gymnast Sunisa Lee seemed to double down.
“Put a finger down if Simone Biles just ended you,” wrote the 21-year-old Lee, adding a hand emoji in a comment that appears to have been deleted.
The original spat started when Skinner, who won a silver medal with Team USA in Tokyo, suggested that this year’s gymnastics roster lacked the necessary creed.
“Besides Simone, I feel like the talent and the depth just isn’t like what it used to be,” Skinner said in a video that has since been removed from YouTube as the 2024 roster was announced. “The girls just don’t have the work ethic.”
Biles clapped back after the U.S. won gold in the team gymnastics final, writing in her Instagram caption: “Lack of talent, lazy, olympic champions,” in an apparent dig at Skinner.
The plot further thickened Wednesday after Biles suggested that Skinner had blocked her on at least one social media platform.
However, weeks before the Summer Games got underway, Skinner posted a statement on social media, apologizing for her previous comments.
“I want to formally apologize to Team USA and to our gymnastic community for my comments during my recent YouTube episodes of the gymnastics Olympic trials,” Skinner wrote in a July 6 Instagram post . “It was not my intention to offend or disrespect any of the athletes or to take away from their hard work.”
Skinner, who retired following the Tokyo Games in 2021, was not part of this year’s five-woman team that reclaimed the throne as all-around team champions with Biles, Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera leading the way.
As part of the gilded performance that saw Team USA post a 171.296 total score, Lee ranked first in Rotation 3 with a 14.600 score on the balance beam, scored a second-place 14.566 on uneven bars in Rotation 2 and also added a 13.533 on floor exercise in Rotation 4.
“It doesn’t get more iconic than this.. She f’d around n found out fr,” Maroney wrote while not-so-subtly jabbing at Skinner. “Feels like I need to apologize just to redeem my first name.”
Given Team USA’s youthful energy and social media prominence, it doesn’t appear that the celebratory tour — full of barbs seemingly directed at Skinner — will stop anytime soon.
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Ok, now let’s Shut the fuck up. All of y’all had your headlines now let’s get back to not caring about gymnastics for another 4 years. These “staged” beefs in sports starting to get old
Eldorado Seville
08-03
I'm Team USA Forever 🇺🇸. Congratulations on the Gold Medals 🏅
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