Social media was already ablaze about Simone Biles’ efficiency when she helped the U.S. win an Olympic gold medal within the girls’s gymnastics workforce ultimate on Tuesday. However Biles poured gasoline on the social chatter when she posted a sequence of 4 photographs on Instagram with a cryptic caption.
The caption? “lack of expertise, lazy, olympic champions” adopted by emojis of a coronary heart, gold medal and U.S. flag:
The caption seems to be a not-so-thinly-veiled shot at 2020 Olympic teammate MyKayla Skinner. In a video, which has since been deleted, Skinner reportedly stated, “Moreover Simone, I really feel just like the expertise and the depth simply isn’t like what it was” and “the women simply don’t have the work ethic.”
Biles’ put up has greater than two million likes and the feedback are a must-read.
Biles’ 2024 Olympic teammates had been fast to again her up. Sunisa Lee posted “put a finger down if simone biles simply ended you” and Jordan Chiles wrote “and that’s on periodt!!”
2012 Olympian McKayla Maroney, who spells her first identify in a different way than Skinner, posted “Appears like I have to apologize simply to redeem my first identify” and “It doesn’t get extra iconic than this.”
Different notable feedback got here from three-time Olympic ski medalist Lindsey Vonn (“let the haters hate when you [redacted] go get medals),” two-time Olympic determine skating medalist Michelle Kwan (“4 letter phrase for all of the haters – G.O.A.T”) and five-time Olympic gymnastics medalist Nastia Liukin (“midcrop”).
Skinner didn’t instantly handle Biles’ put up, however she did put up an image of Biles and her teammates to her Instagram Story with three coronary heart emojis.
Biles will compete for her subsequent gold medal within the girls’s all-around ultimate on Thursday (SCHEDULE).