This week former Team USA Gymnastics member, MyKayla Skinner, begged Simone Biles to call off her fans after Simone trolled MyKayla for making negative comments about the current USA Gymnastics team on her podcast [click here if you missed that].
In a new interview Simone speaks on the importance of standing up for her teammates...
From People
Simone Biles is confident in herself and her power — it's been part of her whole journey these Games.
And it's why she's felt comfortable using her voice to stand up for herself and for her teammates while the entire world watches.
"It's important because you have to teach them to use their voices," Biles, 27, tells PEOPLE on Aug. 6, the day after she concluded the 2024 Paris Olympics with four more medals. "And if not, you're a voice for the voiceless, which is okay."
Biles takes her role as "team lead" seriously, she says.
"I just felt like it was right in that moment to stand up for them, because they're so young and they haven't fully stood in their power yet," the champion gymnast — America's most decorated Olympic gymnast of all time — says.
That moment came earlier in the Games, when Biles seemingly clapped back at former teammate Mykayla Skinner for comments she made criticizing the "talent" of the gymnasts on this year's Team USA roster: Biles, Suni Lee, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles and Hezly Rivera. After the "Golden Girls" won gold in the team final, Biles posted a photo with the caption, "Lack of talent, lazy, olympic champions ❤️🥇🇺🇸."
Later, Biles and Chiles revealed that Skinner had seemingly blocked Biles on Instagram. (On Tuesday, Skinner — who had previously apologized for her comments — said she was "heartbroken" over Biles' caption and said that she'd been receiving "another wave of hateful comments" in the wake.)
Biles tells PEOPLE that "for somebody to stand up, I know it meant a lot for [my teammates]."
5 comments:
I don’t get it, this poster hater invited the drama and controversy with her own words and now she can’t handle social media. Log off, be done.
Skinner is trying to give whyt keyboard tears, next time shut your mouth, and get over your jealousy.
How you gonna start something then cry some fake tears demanding an apology and asking her to reach out to her fans to stop what she started!!! Girl she is in Paris collecting gold medals while you’re sitting at home trying to make this about you!!! Please have have a whole auditorium of seats while Simone takes her position 🤸🏽
Simone is just wonderful. Talents, cute, brave and a leader.
Skinner started it, she could have simply tweeted Go USA, instead she chose to give a negative opinion about the current squad. She can dish it out but she can't take it. Bye Felicia
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