MyKayla Skinner Harmer is issuing a plea to Simone Biles.
The awe-inspiring efficiency by Simone Biles and the remainder of Staff USA gymnastics has earned 7 Olympic medals. Three of these are gold.
Nonetheless, simply weeks in the past, MyKayla Skinner Harmer, who has technically by no means made an Olympic workforce besides as an alternate, stirred up controversy by attacking the present gymnasts. Simone Biles clapped again.
Now, MyKayla is asking Simone to rescue her from on-line backlash. Is she making this all about herself? And is that this actually Simone’s accountability?
Keep in mind MyKayla Skinner Harmer?
MyKayla was an alternate on the 2016 Olympics. That yr, she turned the middle of an argument after enhancing her picture over Staff USA gymnast Gabby Douglas. The accompanying racist emojis didn’t assist.
Then, she competed within the 2021 Tokyo Olympics (as a person), successful a silver medal on the vault.
Except diehard gymnastics followers, many individuals forgot MyKayla Skinner Harmer till lately. In a now-deleted YouTube video, MyKayla lashed out at Staff USA gymnasts.
Do Olympic athletes are usually ‘lazy’ individuals?
MyKayla Skinner Harmer accused the Olympic gymnasts representing america on the 2024 Paris video games of being “lazy” and missing in athletic aptitude.
“I feel like the talent and the depth just isn’t like what it used to be,” she claimed. “Just notice like, I mean, obviously a lot of girls don’t work as hard. The girls just don’t have the work ethic.” That appears to be patently unfaithful.
There was additionally an implication by MyKayla that security guidelines, which got here to being after the many crimes of Dr. Nassar, had been not directly making the workforce worse. It’s obscure why MyKayla would take these positions, or what she hoped to realize by sharing them.
Simone Biles took the excessive highway
For her half, Simone Biles’ clapback was gentle. She didn’t name out MyKayla Skinner Harmer by title, for instance.
As a substitute, she provided a tongue-in-cheek Instagram caption beneath images of herself and different gymnasts for Staff USA.
“Lack of talent, lazy, Olympic champions,” she described. Different Olympians, previous and current (and notably McKayla Maroney)
Now, MyKayla Skinner Harmer is begging Simone Biles to ask followers and followers to depart her alone
On Tuesday, August 6, MyKayla took to Instagram to handle Simone Biles immediately. Although the ladies have actually met again on the Tokyo video games, one can solely assume that they don’t have one another’s contact info.
MyKayla lamented what she calls a “wave of hateful comments” which have included alleged “death threats.”
She begged: “Simone, I am asking you directly and publicly, to please put a stop to this.”
MyKayla Skinner Harmer would really like for the backlash to finish
“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,” MyKayla Skinner Harmer begged.
She stated of herself and her household: “We’ve been hurt and attacked in ways that I am certain you never intended.”
We, too, are sure that Simone Biles didn’t intend something of the type. But it appears like MyKayla believes that SImone is in some way chargeable for it.
She alleges that there have been threats
“Watching people cheer on the bullying — which has led to threats of physical harm to me, my husband, and our daughter — is disgusting,” MyKayla Skinner Harmer expressed. “So please at this point, I’m just asking for it to just stop for the sake of my family because enough is enough.”
She additionally tried to stroll again earlier feedback, emphasizing: “I know these women are incredible — the very best of the best — and almost all of them are my former teammates who I have enjoyed very much cheering on the last few years.”
“If Simone truly believes that I called our team lazy and lacking talent and if that’s really how she feels, I am really heartbroken over it,” she lamented.
It’s unclear how this could possibly be Simone’s fault
“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,” MyKayla Skinner Harmer alleged.
“Hate that includes death threats to me, my family, and even my agent,” she continued. “My family and my friends don’t deserve to be caught in the crossfire here. They’ve done nothing.”
We actually hope that any threats of demise or violence stop. Whereas it’s tough to see how any of that’s Simone Biles’ enterprise, not to mention accountability, threats usually are not an acceptable response.
