Simone Biles and Suni Lee gang up on MyKayla Skinner with ruthless comment about her personal struggles;Watch Skinner’s divisive TikTok that started all the dram
MyKayla Skinner became the worst enemy of USA Gymnastics with a series of videos, including this “fingers down” video where she attempted to gain pity for the difficulties she faced in her Olympic journey.
It received no sympathy from Sunisa Lee, who mocked the TikTok directly on Simone Biles’ viral Instagram post after USA won gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
“Put a finger down if Simone Biles just ended you,” Lee wrote on Instagram.
Who is MyKayla Skinner?
Skinner is a former USA gymnast who competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, taking home a silver medal on the vault while Biles famously withdrew from the competition. Despite her individual success, Skinner is the only US women’s gymnastics Olympian without a team Olympic medal in over 30 years.
In the TikTok video, she detailed her trials and tribulations leading to the 2020 Olympic Games, including battling injuries, COVID-19 and pneumonia. She sought sympathy for her personal struggles, but did not extend the same grace to others when she publicly questioned the work ethic of the 2024 USA gymnastics team, including Lee, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles and Hezly Rivera.
Simone Biles vs MyKayla Skinner drama backstory
When Team USA took home the gold medal in artistic gymnastics in Paris on Tuesday, Biles took a shot at Skinner with her celebratory Instagram post.
“Lack of talent, lazy, olympic champions,” she captioned a photo of the team wearing their gold medals.
She took the words directly from comments made by Skinner before the 2024 Paris Olympics, when she said “Besides Simone, I feel like the talent and the depth just isn’t what it used to be. I mean, obviously, a lot of girls don’t work as hard. The girls just don’t have the work ethic.”
The stage was set for the dramatic conclusion before the Olympics even began, when Biles posted on Threads: “Not everyone needs a mic and a platform.”
