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MyKayla Skinner Asks Simone Biles to ‘Put a Stop’ to the Online Bullying She’s Received

In a new social media video, the former Olympian said she was ‘heartbroken’ if ‘Simone truly feels’ that Mykayla called Team USA ‘lazy.’

“To be totally clear, I take 100 percent responsibility for poorly articulating the point I was trying to make,” MyKayla noted, before adding, “And the last thing I wanted was to cause harm or offend our U.S. Olympic team. While acknowledging the public apology she had made along with the alleged “individual messages” she had sent to Team USA, MyKayla claimed that Simone was the only one who “had responded, and she told me that she was proud of me.” But not just heartbroken because it isn’t what I feel or even how I previously said, but because Simone’s latest post and others that followed it fueled another wave of hateful comments, DMs, articles and emails.

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