MYKAYLA Skinner has addressed her beef with Team USA gymnast Simone Biles.
Biles called out Skinner in an Instagram comment after winning goldSkinner faced some heat for dissing the Team USA gymnasts before the Olympics, and Biles didn’t let her forget it after they won the women’s team all-around event.However, Skinner revealed that she has faced a barrage of death threats and cyberbullying from the feud, and has asked Biles to reel her fans in.”Simone, I am asking you directly and publicly, to please put a stop to this,” Skinner said.”Please ask your followers to stop, you have been an incredible champion for mental health awareness and a lot of people need your help now.The caption referenced a video that Skinner made after the Olympic roster was announced.”Besides Simone, I feel like the talent and the depth just isn’t like what it used to be,” Skinner said in a now deleted Twitter video.‘USA got cheated’ furious fans claim after ‘really bad officiating’ ends women’s 3×3 basketball Olympic quest”Just notice like, I mean, obviously a lot of girls don’t work as hard. The girls just don’t have the work ethic.”She has since insisted that she wasn’t calling the team lazy, and that she just poorly articulated her words.Skinner also claimed in her video on Tuesday that only one of the Team USA athletes has reached out to her since they won gold in Paris.”Only Simone had responded and she told me that she was proud of me,” she said.