Disgraced gymnast gets dragged by Simone et al. following US team's win

[piratesswoop]

The United States women's gymnastics team won team gold yesterday and the winning ladies took to social media pretty quickly to celebrate their win. The caption from one of Simone Biles' posts had the Gymternet going nuts.



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So what's the story behind this

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[silverstarry]

Ha, I submitted a post about the same thing so I am just going to add some more info:

After the Rio Olympics, MyKayla began her collegiate career, competing for the University of Utah. During this time, she used the N word repeatedly on social media. She did it frequently on Snapchat until the university asked her to knock it off. She also did several interviews where she talked shit about other collegiate gymnasts, criticizing them for not doing harder skills (note: NCAA gymnastics still operates on the old 10.0 system so the required elements are different from the requirements/code of points used for elite gymnastics).



She also talked shit about other gymnasts during her collegiate career. She often complained that the other gymnasts were doing "easier" routines and it wasn't fair that they were getting high scores. If you aren't familiar with NCAA gymnastics, it operates on the old 10.0 gymnastics scale with the previous version of requirements. In that system, there is a list of required elements for each routine. If you fulfill them, then your routine starts at a 10.0. For example, on floor and beam, you must do a turn. If you do a single turn in any position, you have completed the required element. If you choose to do a more difficult version of that requirement, your start value is still a 10.0. MyKayla went to Utah straight from elite international gymnastics so she already had an advanced skill set for her NCAA routines. But there are girls who drop out of elite/international competition in their teen years and still compete in gymnastics in college. She was basically criticizing everyone else for not doing elite level skills at the NCAA level. Keep in mind that she had the option not to keep doing elite level skills as a collegiate gymnast.

[thethingiswhat]

Her execution also wasn’t up to par with some of those gymnasts. She always felt like she deserved more 10s, but even though she improved in college, her execution was still well behind people like Kyla Ross and Maggie Nichols.

Also as someone who became a UCLA gymnastics fan during covid, I’m glad they won the tournament in 2018 and Utah didn’t win as a team while Skinner was there.

[silverstarry]

I agree about her execution. I just mentioned in a different comment that her gymnastics technique reminded me of cheerleaders who learn back handsprings at cheer gyms. The emphasis is on being able to do the trick, not doing it cleanly so they end up with really ugly/unsafe technique. It physically pains me to watch some cheerleaders tumble. A lot of MyKayla's gymnastics reminded me of that. Like technically she did all the rotations or whatever the skill was, but aesthetically it was sloppy. She didn't have the polish, grace, finish, and clean lines that many of the other former elite gymnasts in the NCAA had.

[thereinventions]

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[silverstarry]

[primimproper]

What the fuck??????????!?!!

Loathe her racist ass.