Simone Biles’ painful history with MyKayla Skinner coincided with Larry Nasser abuse, ‘toxic’ Karolyi culture

If Simone Biles did in fact use a celebratory Instagram post to fire back at former teammate MyKayla Skinner Tuesday night, after she led the U.S. women’s gymnastics team to gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics, she had very good reasons.

They include the likelihood that Skinner’s hurtful comments over the past month, deriding Team USA’s “work ethic,” offered a painful reminder to Biles and other gymnasts of a recent dark past in their sport’s history. That’s when the public learned about rampant...