*Simone Biles has requested viewers of the 2024 Paris Olympics to refrain from commenting on her hair.
PEOPLE reports that the seven-time Olympic medalist, 7, turned to her Instagram Stories on July 30, to show her and fellow Olympians enduring a 45-minute bus ride in Paris’ intense 95-degree heat.
“Don’t come for me about my hair,” she captioned the video, showing her hair pulled back into a ponytail. “IT WAS DONE but bus has NO AC & it’s like 9,000 degrees.”
In a follow-up post, she wrote, “gonna hold your hand when I say this,” before adding, “next time you want to comment on a Black girl’s hair, JUST DON’T.”
Meanwhile, Biles and Team USA clinched gold at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Biles, now an eight-time Olympic medalist, commemorated the achievement by sharing several celebratory photos of the squad on Instagram.
Just GOAT things.
Simone Biles kicks her day off with a solid vault. #ParisOlympics
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— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) July 30, 2024
“Lack of talent, lazy, olympic champions ,” Biles captioned the post, seemingly clapping back at 2020 Olympic vault silver medalist Skinner, who previously criticized Team USA in a now-deleted YouTube video.
Last month, when the team announced they were heading to the Games, Skinner, 27, said, “Besides Simone, I feel like the talent and the depth just isn’t like what it used to be.”
“Just notice like, I mean, obviously a lot of girls don’t work as hard. The girls just don’t have the work ethic,” she added, per a clip from the video shared on X (formerly known as Twitter).
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CNN reports that Skinner later apologized in a statement on X amid an online backlash.
“It was not my intention to offend of disrespect any of the athletes or to take away from their hard work,” she wrote.
“I take full responsibility for what I said and I deeply apologize,” she added.
Skinner and Biles both represented Team USA at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Following the team’s gold victory on Tuesday, Biles now holds the record for the most Olympic medals of any US gymnast, further cementing her status as the most decorated gymnast of all time.
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