Here's what's behind Simone Biles' viral Instagram caption she posted after she and her team won gold in the 2024 Olympics.
Social media was already ablaze about Simone Biles’ performance when she helped the U.S. win an Olympic gold medal in the . But Biles poured gasoline on the social chatter when she posted a series of four photos on Instagram with a cryptic caption.
The caption? “lack of talent, lazy, olympic champions” followed by emojis of a heart, gold medal and U.S. flag: The caption appears to be a not-so-thinly-veiled shot at 2020 Olympic teammate MyKayla Skinner. In a video, which has since been deleted, , “Besides Simone, I feel like the talent and the depth just isn’t like what it used to be” and “the girls just don’t have the work ethic.”Biles’ 2024 Olympic teammates were quick to back her up.
2012 Olympian McKayla Maroney, who spells her first name differently than Skinner, posted “Feels like I need to apologize just to redeem my first name” and “It doesn’t get more iconic than this.”Other notable comments came from three-time Olympic ski medalist Lindsey Vonn ,” two-time Olympic figure skating medalist Michelle Kwan and five-time Olympic gymnastics medalist Nastia Liukin .
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