‘She Shoulda STFU’: MyKayla Skinner’s Plea to Simone Biles Backfires After Fans Call Out Her ‘White Woman Tears’ and Past Bullying of Other Gymnasts

Retired gymnast Mykayla Skinner Harmer says backlash for her critical comments about her contemporaries has become too much to bear. And in an unexpected turn of events, she is now asking her former teammate Simone Biles to intervene. In an Aug. 6 Instagram post pleading for a break from the online critics, Skinner said, “Things have really gotten out of hand lately,” adding that she and her family and friends have been enduring “cyberbullying,” including “disgusting” threats of physical harm and death. “Enough is enough…I take 100 percent responsibility for poorly articulating the point I was trying to make” she said. Biles and her Team USA teammates, Jordan Chiles, Sunni Lee, Hezly Rivera, and Jade Carey, just completed a victorious series of performances at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Simone Biles is asked to step in after former teammate Mykayla Skinner’s “tacky” remarks about Team USA. (Photos: Simonebiles/Instagram; Mykaylaskinner2016/Instagram) The Columbus, Ohio, native became the nation’s most decorated Olympic gymnast, adding four medals — three gold and one silver — to her collection, bringing her lifetime total to 11. When the collective took top honors with their floor routines last week, Biles marked the milestone with a carousel of photos of...