Simone Biles’ teammates have her back.
When the athlete celebrated the women’s gymnastics team’s 2024 Paris Olympics win Tuesday with an Instagram dig at MyKayla Skinner, her fellow Team USA members took to the comments section to chime in.
Biles’ shady social media upload came weeks after Skinner, who retired after taking home a silver medal in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, blasted Jade Carey, Jordan Chile, Hezly Rivera and Suni Lee’s lack of “talent and depth.”
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She said in a since-deleted YouTube video earlier this month that “besides Simone … the girls just don’t have the work ethic.”
Biles’ referenced the critical review in her Instagram caption, which read, “lack of talent, lazy, olympic champions ❤️