Skinner posted an emotional video on Instagram on Tuesday.
Former Team USA gymnast MyKayla Skinner broke her silence on Tuesday amid an ongoing Olympic feud with ex-teammate Simone Biles.
In an emotional video posted to her Instagram, Skinner asked Biles to tell her social media followers to help put a stop the onslaught of “hateful comments” and “death threats” that Skinner and her family have received in the past week. “To Simone, I am asking you directly and publicly, to please put a stop to this,” Skinner said. “Please ask your followers to stop. You have been an incredible champion for mental health awareness and a lot of people need your help now. We’ve been hurt and attacked in ways that I am certain you never intended. Your performance, the team’s performance and the Olympics in general should be a time that we support one another and lift each other and our country up.
Skinner continued, “I love our country and I love our team, and I hope that we can move on and move forward and cheer on the rest of our teammates and athletes together.”Skinner added that she sent individual apologies to each member of the Team USA squad during the Olympics. She also said she would be taking a break from social media.
After the U.S. women’s gymnastics squad won a gold medal in the team finals at the Paris Games on July 30, Biles celebrated the victory with a social media postKristen Wong is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. She has been a sports journalist since 2020. Before joining SI in November 2023, Wong covered four NFL teams as an associate editor with the FanSided NFL Network and worked as a staff writer for the brand’s flagship site.
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