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Simone Biles Reveals Why It’s ‘Important’ to Stand Up for Her Teammates Amid MyKayla Skinner Drama


Simone Biles revealed why it was 'important' for her to stand up for her teammates after MyKayla Skinner made comments about today's gymnasts' work ethic.

The Ohio-born artistic gymnast celebrated the achievement by taking to Instagram with photos of the team, which she captioned, “Lack of talent, lazy, Olympic champions.” This caption was seemingly a clapback at former teammate MyKayla, 27, who said in a since-deleted YouTube video during the Olympic trials in June that, “besides Simone,” the “talent and depth” among gymnasts today was not “what it used to be.” 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,” the mom of one said.

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