The Team USA women’s gymnastics team has more reason is feeling good about themselves after another gold medal performance and rightly so.
Simone Biles appeared to fire a shot at a former Team USA gymnast as she celebrated winning a gold medal with her teammates in a post on social media on Tuesday.
Biles posted a collage of photos on Instagram. The photos showed her and her teammates carrying the American flag across the floor. They were celebrating their gold medal victory in the team final. In her post, Biles did not mince words.
“Lack of talent, lazy, Olympic champions,” she wrote.
Biles seemed to be clapping back at criticism from MyKayla Skinner. Skinner was part of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics team. She won a silver medal on vault after replacing Biles when she left the team due to the twisties.
Before the 2024 Paris Olympics, Skinner shared her opinion of the team.
“Besides Simone, I feel like the talent and the depth just isn’t like what it used to be. Just notice like, I mean, obviously a lot of girls don’t work as hard. The girls just don’t have the work ethic,” Skinner said. This was in a since-deleted YouTube video, according to the New York Post.
Skinner issued an apology for her remarks earlier this month.
However, it seemed to give the gymnastics team some extra motivation. They appear to be on a redemption tour.
Jordan Chiles responded to Biles’ post, saying, “and that’s on periodt!!.”
McKayla Maroney joked, “It doesn’t get more iconic than this.. She f’d around n found out fr. Feels like I need to apologize just to redeem my first name.”