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Olympics 2024: Suni Lee and Jordan Chiles React to Simone Biles Shading MyKayla Skinner
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Date:2025-04-10 18:53:28
Simone Biles’ teammates support her on the mat and in the comments section. Shortly after the 27-year-old helped lead Team USA to Olympic gold, the gymnast enjoyed a little online shade.
Biles along with fellow American Olympians Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and Hezly Rivera secured a victory in the women’s all-around gymnastics final on July 30, and Biles shared a celebratory post, complete with a trolling caption.
“Lack of talent, lazy, Olympic champions,” Biles—who became the most decorated U.S. gymnast in history with her most recent gold medal—wrote.
The comments section went wild with Lee writing, “Put a finger down if Simone Biles just ended you,” and adding an open palm emoji.
Chiles wrote, “And that’s on periodt!!”
Biles’ husband, Jonathan Owens, who attended the historic win, commented, “F AROUND AND FIND OUT.”
Former Olympic gymnast, McKayla Maroney, also commented on the post. “It doesn’t get more iconic than this,” she wrote. “She f’d around n found out fr. Feels like I need to apologize just to redeem my first name.”
Biles liked the comment, seemingly confirming the buzz that the caption was directed at her former teammate, MyKayla Skinner.
Skinner came under fire several weeks ago after comments she made about the team. In Skinner’s since-deleted YouTube video, the Tokyo Olympics gymnast criticized the five Olympians who qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics team.
“Besides Simone I feel like the talent and the depth isn’t what it used to be,” Skinner said in early July. “I just noticed, obviously, a lot of girls don’t work as hard. The girls don’t have the work ethic.”
The 27-year-old later clarified her comments, saying she felt viewers had “misinterpreted or misunderstood” what she was saying.
"A lot of the stuff that I was talking about wasn't always necessarily about the current team,” Skinner said, “because I love and support all the girls that made it and I'm so proud of them."
For her part, Skinner reposted a photo of the five Paris Olympians, adding heart emojis after their win.
The silver medalist—she placed second alongside Team USA in the women’s all-around event in Tokyo— previously apologized for how her comments were perceived. "I love those girls and I'm seriously so happy for them," she said at the time. "I would never do anything to make them feel otherwise. So, sorry if that came out wrong, that was not my intentions at all."
In addition to women's gymnastics, Team USA has been putting on an impressive show in Paris. Keep reading to learn more about the athletes who made history.
She really is the GOAT! Biles became the most decorated U.S. Olympic gymnast in history after winning her eighth medal—and her fifth gold—at the women's all-around gymnastics final.
But Biles wasn't the only gymnast who made history at the women's all-around gymnastics final: Angela Andreoli, Alice D'Amato, Manila Esposito, Elisa Iorio, Giorgia Villa nabbed Team Italy its first medal in the event since 1928 with their silver win.
Rebeca Andrade, Jade Barbosa, Lorrane Oliveira, Flavia Saraiva and Julia Soares also made history on the podium, winning a bronze for Team Brazil's first-ever medal in women's all-around gymnastics.
Just three days into the Paris Games, the sharpshooter entered the history books as first Indian athlete to win multiple medals in a single edition of the Olympics.
She notched a bronze in the women's 10m air pistol—making her the first female shooter from India to win a medal at any Olympics—before landing another bronze alongside teammate Sarabjot Singh in the 10m air rifle, the country's first-ever shooting team medal.
With eight seconds left on the clock, Alex Sedrick caught a pass and scored as time ran out, leading to a conversion that resulted in a 14-12 game against Australia.
The dramatic victory gave the Women's Eagles a bronze, Team USA's first-ever Olympic medal in the rugby.
The Olympian made history as the first Romanian man to win a gold medal for swimming when he took home the top prize in the 200m freestyle event.
Just call it an American victory story! In scoring a bronze on July 29, the Team USA swimmer became the first man to win a 100m backstroke medal in three consecutive Olympics since 1972.
The prize was the latest addition to his already-impressive medal collection, which includes a bronze from Tokyo 2020 and a gold from the Rio de Janeiro Games 2016 for the same event.
The Australian swimmer set an Olympic record with a time of 1:53.27 in women’s 200m freestyle, beating out defending champ and teammate Ariarne Titmus for the gold.
No other gymnast except Simone Biles has ever performed a double layout with a half-twist—a difficult move aptly dubbed "Biles I"—at the Olympics until Heron came along.
The Panamanian athlete successfully landed it while competing against the stunt's namesake during the gymnastics qualifier.
Team Canada scored its first gold medal in judo thanks to Deguchi, who defeated Republic of Korea's Huh Mimi in a heated July 29 match.
By winning a gold medal in K1, the canoeist became the first Australian athlete to win four consecutive Olympic medals in the same event—having taken home bronze at Tokyo 2020 and at Rio de Janeiro 2016, as well as silver in London 2012.
She is now tied with Slovakia's Michal Martikán as the most-decorated Olympic slalom paddler.
In her first-ever Summer Games, the American swimmer broke the Olympic record in the 100m butterfly semifinal with a time of 55.38 seconds.
South Sudan—the youngest country in the world—made its Olympics debut on July 28, with their men's basketball team playing against Puerto Rico.
The South Sudan Bright Stars won their first-ever Olympic game with a final score of 90-79.
The sharpshooter made Olympic history as the world's first and only athlete to compete in 10 consecutive Summer Games when she pulled the trigger at the women's 10m air pistol qualifers on July 27.
The three-time medalist made her Olympic debut back at 1988 Seoul.
For the first time in Olympic history, Jordan was represented in men's gymnastic when Abu Al-Soud competed on the pommel horse. He finished with a score of 12.466 during the qualification round.
Syria also saw its first male gymnast compete in the Olympics during the Paris Summer Games, with Najjar raising the bar in the all-around event.
Stephen Nedoroscik, Frederick Richard, Brody Malone, Paul Juda and Asher Hong won Team USA's first medal in men's gymnastics in 16 years, earning a bronze.
The basketball player made history as the first Black flagbearer for Greece during the Opening Ceremony.
The track and field star, who turned 16 in January, "etched his name" in history, according to Team USA, when he became the youngest male athlete to make 4x400m relay squad.
As for the youngest athlete in any sport to make Team USA? That'll be Rivera, who turned 16 just weeks before she was selected to join the women's gymnastics team.
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