MyKayla Skinner is apologizing following feedback she made in a since-deleted YouTube video during which she seemingly shaded Simone Biles‘ Olympic teammates.
The 27-year-old gymnast took to her Instagram Story on Wednesday and mentioned her feedback have been “misinterpreted” and she or he by no means meant to harm anybody. The 2020 Olympics vault silver medalist added she’s “severely so completely happy” for the ladies’s gymnastics group heading to Paris this month to symbolize Group USA.
Biles, Suni Lee, Jade Carey and Jordan Chiles and 16-year-old Junior World silver medalist Hezly Rivera have been chosen final weekend following Sunday’s U.S. Olympic Trials, which turned the most-watched Olympic trials since 2016 with 7.6 million viewers throughout NBC and peaking at 8.2 million. Following their choice, Skinner posted a YouTube video recapping the trials and questioned everybody however Biles’ work ethic, amongst different issues.
“Apart from Simone, I really feel just like the expertise and the depth simply is not like what it was,” she mentioned within the since-deleted YouTube video however captured and shared on social media. “I simply discover, like, I imply, clearly a whole lot of women do not work as exhausting. The women simply do not have the work ethic.”
Biles seemingly responded to the feedback, sharing on Instagram Threads, “not everybody wants a mic and a platform.” Chiles’ mom, Gina, also tweeted, “Whoa. She actually mentioned that out loud and posted it. That is one thing.”
Skinner, who has not competed for the reason that 2020 Olympics, sought to make clear her feedback in a since-expired Instagram Story, however captured by People.
“Hey, guys, simply wished to pop on right here actually fast, as a result of I do know we did the recap on YouTube, and I really feel like a whole lot of you guys had misinterpreted or misunderstood precisely what I used to be which means or had mentioned,” she mentioned.
She claimed that “a whole lot of the stuff” she spoke about in her YouTube video “wasn’t at all times essentially concerning the present group, as a result of I like and assist all the ladies that made it and I am so happy with them.”
She added, “So anyway, sorry for something that bought out of context or appeared hurtful. That’s by no means my intention. And severely, all through the video, I used to be so pumped for the ladies, and it was enjoyable watching trials and doing a stay with all people.”
Skinner additionally apologized if how she conveyed her message “got here out improper” and that “that was not my intention in any respect.”
Group USA’s girls’s gymnastics begins competing July 28 within the qualifying spherical. Along with her qualification, 27-year-old Biles, a four-time Olympic gold medalist, turns into the oldest feminine American gymnast to go to the Olympic Video games.
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