MyKayla Skinner Clarifies CONTROVERSIAL Comments About Olympic Team | E! News 

Naa, she meant what she said. We didn't misinterpret what she said. She has a history of talking like this.

Except for the fact that SHE SAID, “Besides Simone,”……… so she did mean what she said.

Jealousy is very ugly.

I have a feeling she was mad at herself for not going for another olympics after seeing simone and the team succeed at trials and then took it out on everyone else

In her youtube recap video she kept bringing up how she would have made the team after seeing the final members fall. I kept thinking “Were those comments necessary?” To put these hard-working girls down to put herself up? It really rubbed me the wrong way

A non-apology. Except for Hezly Rivera, they are all in their 20s. They are women, not girls.

Ultimately Simone, Jade, Suni Lee, and Jordan put the work in for another 3 years. They had the guts to try for another Olympics. And they were rewarded for their hard work. MyKayla didn't - she chose a different path. Jealousy is ugly!! Be happy for your former teammates! Or say nothing.... ugh!

She didn't clarify anything, she lied when she made her half assed apology.

Gaslighting is worse than no apology.

I heard the whole video, there was not context to be lost - she was very clear.

As someone diagnosed with a kidney disease, Suni is someone I look up to. What I have to go through is hard. I can't even imagine how hard it was for her to get back to that level and EARN her spot. Simone is a hard worker but so are all the girls that made it and didn't make it on the team. She said what she said and MEANT IT. She didn't even make the team she was an alternate.

While she is an Olympian, she cannot judge a team she knows nothing about and yes, she was saying Marta’s reign created winning teams. Suni Lee suffered from two kidney issues and was told she’d never compete again and yet she did it…how? HARD WORK. I love that these ladies support each other. I’d rather see them fall at Trials and nail it at the Olympics. They earned their spots and she did mean what she said. Time to grow up. She would not last with what’s required now. I used to cheer her on but no more. Just a sad turn of events. So disappointed with her comments.

I’ve been a huge supporter of her at the University of Utah and her comeback to elite and the Olympics, but her comments are disappointing and offensive, especially about the lack of work ethic. ANY of the gymnasts who made the Olympic Trials are hard workers because it’s an intense and difficult sport!

Jealousy

She should have kept her mouth shut. If she thought she said nothing wrong and went as far as trying to "explain", why delete the original comment?

Whatever.. stop backpedaling.. you’re not even an Olympic gold medalist. You’re no longer an Olympian. Move on.

I was a huge fan of hers for so long, but no elite gymnast can ever be characterized as lazy or not having a good work ethic. It’s just not possible. The two do not go together. Some gymnasts are so incredibly talented that they don’t have to put in quite as many routines or as many hours in the gym, and I think this is seen to her as laziness. And maybe she is upset that there are people out there who can train a lot less to take care of their bodies and still get those high amazing scores and dominate. Unfortunately, she was unable to do that. There were so many other things she said that were wrong, just flat out factually wrong, like she couldn’t believe gymnasts had falls at Olympic trials and still made the team. If you go back and check the last 50 years of people making the teams, there has always been one person making the Olympic team, who has fallen at trials. Someone has always fallen at trials on every single Olympic team. So that’s not a fact at all. In 2016 it was Gabby and Madison. In 2021 it was Grace I believe and Simone. Plus, she said under Bela and Marta, the US always dominated. And that’s just not true. They didn’t win gold until 1996, so all of that time in the 80s and early 90s, they did not dominate, and then it was the same in 2000 and 2004. The US team has only dominated in 1996, 2012, and 2016. That’s it. So so many things she was presenting as factual were untrue. There’s a lot more, I watched the entire video, but not everything is coming to mind since it was taken down, unfortunately. Again, I think she had a lot of regret because she sees four of her former Olympic teammates up there, and I think she really wishes she could be up there and the only way to make herself feel better is to somehow say that they are not as good as when she was on the team. It makes her feel better. Not to mention that she couldn’t even remember which gymnast had fallen twice and gotten second place, which was Suni, someone she claims as one of her best friends and a teammate from only three years ago. And she could not believe she was put on the team. And she couldn’t even pronounce Hezly’s name correctly and said it was a crazy name. Her husband Jonas had to keep correcting her from off camera. It just kind of reeks of entitlement and how she would have definitely made the team if she would have stayed on because of all those injuries. With the scores that happened that night, and with her scores, she had back at Olympic trials, she would have placed either sixth or seventh. so I’m betting she would not have made the team even though she feels she would have. And I think that’s where the envy comes in and becomes the reason for all of her comments. And the fact that she said all this, and then thought it was OK to post it and assumed everyone would be agreeing with her. yes, things gotten a little bit more laid-back, but the incredible over correction had to happen because of all the intense abuse that was happening for so many years, that she herself said she was lucky enough to escape. She had fantastic coaches, and her apology, she said she was actually talking about her own gym and her coaches, so then she threw them under the bus. And in her original video, she did not mention her coaches at all so that doesn’t even fit. And her coach said the only reason Mykayla escaped any serious injuries and having to go visit that horrible team doctor is because she has absolutely no flexibility, and because of that, she has been saved a lot of injuries, ironically. And through all of this, all of her former teammates have either unfollowed her or have made comments about how sad they are with what she said.

So much talk to someone who did not even make it to the 2021 team and was only able to participate in event finals because Simone was not able to.

LO|L, She meant what she said! I was watching it live, and knew as soon as I heard those words come out of her mouth, I knew she'd get some backlash. It was a little shady, but she's probably right that it may apply to some gymnasts. Cut the new team some slack, they had to slowly pace themselves, especially Suni who has 2 kidney diseases. Jade, and Jordan had to juggle elite, and College gymnastics, and may have been viewed as "lazy" to some people. They're older, and the recovery process is longer, so they had to stick with their pacing plans without getting injured. I like Myk. I have a lot of respect for her, and what she's achieved, but she was a sloppy gymnast, and seemed like the type to get overzealous with training difficult moves, and didn't pace herself by sacrificing her form. She worked hard, but not smart.

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