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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[moonsenorita]

not the point of this post, but thinking about how she won't get an announcing gig...I thought Laurie did a great job announcing this year during team.

eta: omg I just realized I've been mixing up Marooney and Skinner! 🤦‍♀️

[chll51]

You're not the only one cuz I almost mixed them up too.

[fauxkaren]

lol poor McKayla Maroney! would get to be mixed up with this trash.

[rubie_dubidoux]

I liked Laurie too but apparently the ~real gymnastics enthusiasts~ thought she was bad and didn't give accurate info about the sport. to which I say... frankly who cares lmao. 95% of viewers are going to forget this sport exists within a couple weeks, this is entertainment to us. we don't need to actually know how it works

[angriest_girl]

A Mormon tradwife named MyKayla. I think we just found the whitest person who ever lived.

[cheerspinkears]

Irrelevant ass had to find some way to draw attention to her trad wife content. All publicity is good publicity right? I kinda wish Simone hadn’t referenced this to keep this woman in relative obscurity to the general public, but hey, she’s the most decorated gymnast of our time, she deserves to let off some steam!

Also I knew she was racist just by looking at her. She got racist face. She just screams MAGA Barbie.

[iznanassi]

its def giving fox news correspondent soft launch

[rubie_dubidoux]

mte this is blowing up her spot in a way that will def get her a job somewhere...

[stepinsidelove]

I'm surprised she hasn't gotten a gig from OANN already. Or at least a speaking gig opening up for Kyle Rittenhouse.

[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).

[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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[lurkurheartout]

I mean all of her comments rubbed me wrong, but when she said lazy it really felt like a racist dog whistle tbh.