Simone Biles Seemingly Responds To Olympian MyKayla Skinner_s Comments About Olympic Team

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00:00Simone Biles is defending her team.

00:04The three-time Olympic gymnast seemingly weighed in on Mikayla Skinner's recent controversial

00:09comments about the 2024 Gymnastics Olympic team.

00:12Although the 28-year-old didn't mention the Olympic silver medalist by name, she wrote

00:16on threads, quote,

00:17''Not everyone needs a mic and a platform.''

00:21The post came after Mikayla sparked controversy in a since-deleted YouTube video for saying,

00:26quote,

00:27''On my own, I feel like the talent and depth just isn't what it used to be,'' adding

00:31in part, quote,

00:32''The girls just don't have the work ethic, and it's hard to because of safe sport.

00:36Like coaches can't get on athletes and they have to be really careful what they say.

00:41Which in some ways is really good, but at the same time, to get where you need to be

00:44in gymnastics, you have to be, I feel like, a little aggressive and a little intense.''

00:50In the video, Mikayla referenced the U.S. Center for Safe Sport, which is a non-profit

00:55organization that helps end abuse in athletics.

00:59Since her video sparked backlash, Mikayla has since apologized and clarified what she

01:03meant in an Instagram story posted on July 3.

01:06I feel like a lot of you guys had misinterpreted or misunderstood exactly what I was meaning

01:11or had said.

01:12I mean, a lot of the stuff that I was talking about wasn't always necessarily about the

01:18current team because I love and support all the girls that made it and I'm so proud of

01:22them.

01:23It was more about going back into my own gym, just the work ethic is different compared

01:27to when we were doing gymnastics in the MARTA era.

01:31And I'm not sticking up for MARTA or saying what she did was good, I'm just saying it

01:35was different.

01:36So anyway, sorry for anything that got out of context or seemed hurtful, that is never

01:43my intentions.

01:44And seriously, throughout the video, I was so pumped for the girls and it was so fun

01:47watching trials and doing a live with everybody.

01:50I love those girls and I'm seriously so happy for them, so I would never do anything to

01:55make them feel otherwise.

01:57So sorry if that came out wrong, that was not my intentions at all.

02:02Mikayla traveled with Simone to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo and won silver on vault.

02:08This time Simone is back for her third Olympics with Suni Lee, Jade Carey, Jordan Childs and

02:13Hesley Rivera.

02:14The team is already highly decorated.

02:17Simone has seven Olympic medals, four gold and a bronze from the 2016 games where she

02:22won the all-around and team finals.

02:25She also got two medals at the 2020 Olympics.

02:28Suni, Jordan and Jade are now two-time Olympians after competing in the 2020 Olympic Games

02:33where Suni won gold in the women all-around, bronze and beam and silver in the team finals

02:39along with Jordan.

02:40Jade also won gold in the floor exercise.

02:43You can watch Team USA compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics starting July 26th on NBC and

02:50Peacock.

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