MyKayla Skinner Clarifies Olympic Gymnastics Team Remarks

On Wednesday, the previous Olympian posted a brief video to her Instagram Tales during which she claimed her current feedback about Group USA had been “misinterpreted.”

“Lots of the stuff that I used to be speaking about wasn’t at all times essentially concerning the present workforce, as a result of I like and assist all the ladies that made it, and I’m so happy with them,” Skinner, 27, defined within the clip. “It was extra about going again into my very own fitness center. Simply, the work ethic is completely different in comparison with once we have been doing gymnastics within the [former team coordinator] Márta [Károlyi] period.”

Skinner described herself as “so pumped” for the members of the present workforce. “I like these women and I’m critically so comfortable for them, so I might by no means do something to make them really feel in any other case,” she stated.

“Sorry if that got here out improper,” she concluded. “That was not my intentions in any respect.”

“In addition to Simone, I really feel just like the expertise and the depth simply isn’t what it was once,” she stated in a since-deleted YouTube video, parts of which could be discovered right here. “Clearly, quite a lot of women don’t work as exhausting … The ladies simply don’t have the work ethic.”

In a succinct submit on Threads, Biles provided what gave the impression to be a response to Skinner’s feedback.

“Not everybody wants a mic and a platform,” Biles wrote.