![]() Now, the American gymnast is going home with a silver medal. Your talent and determination is truly inspiring! #Tokyo2020 /YH6vumtdXW- USA Gymnastics August 1, 2021įalling short of the vault and floor finals during qualifying, Skinner initially thought the Tokyo preliminary competition marked the end of her gymnastics career. If you just woke up and checked your timeline, SMILE, MyKayla Skinner ( just took home □! Yeo Seo-jeong of South Korea rounded out the podium with a score of 14.733, earning a bronze medal. Skinner recorded a combined score of 14.916, just behind Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade, who won gold with a score of 15.083. The 24-year-old gymnast was tapped to compete on vault after Simone Biles pulled out of the event, citing her mental health. So, thank you, to all of them.MyKayla Skinner’s unlikely Olympic journey got its storybook ending on Sunday when the American took home silver in the individual vault final. My Utah family is seriously so amazing and they’ve, you know, been cheering me on since college and even before I got there so to see them supporting me even until now and just cheering me on and wishing that I would have this moment and it finally came true and has been seriously so cool. “They’ve been cheering for me since day one and I wouldn’t be here without their love and support. She’s practically like a sister to me and I’m thankful to be the ‘OG’s” of the team with her.įollowing the vault final, Mykayla also thanked her supporters in Utah who have supported her through her All-American years at the University of Utah. ![]() “She’s like, ‘I just want you to medal.’ and you know, I kept telling her ‘I’m doing this for us,’ and she’s like, ‘You’re not doing it for us, you’re doing this for you,’ so, she’s just been so supportive and really trying to help me stay positive through all of this craziness and everything that’s been going on so she’s been awesome. “Honestly she was just like, ‘I can’t wait to go out there and scream for you!’,” Skinner said of Biles. Her biggest cheerleader Sunday night was Simone Biles, the woman whose withdrawal from the event made Mykayla’s second chance possible. MyKayla Skinner (Harmer) August 2, 2021 Finally, after all these years, Mykayla Skinner has Olympic glory. Then she had to wait and watch as seven other gymnasts tried to beat her average. “Seriously this has been so overwhelming and I’m just so grateful to be able to have this opportunity and so humbled to be able to go out one last time and to be able to now officially retire with an Olympic medal around my neck.”Īfter years of setbacks, Mykayla made the most of her second chance. “Being able to go through all the trials we’ve been through, injuries, Covid and to be able to have the Olympic games and to just be able to walk away with a silver medal has definitely been icing on the cake,” she told KSL after the vault competition. What matters is that she seized the moment she was given and showed she deserved to be there. ![]() Skinner’s path to the podium was unconventional, to say the least, but how she got there really doesn’t matter. Until it wasn’t.Īfter teammate, Simone Biles pulled out of the team competition, individual all-around, and then vault and bars finals it opened the door for Mykayla to return to the competition floor in Tokyo one more time. ![]() The former University of Utah Red Rocks gymnast performed well in the women’s gymnastics qualifying round but did not finish among the top two Americans in any event which meant her Olympic competition was over. TOKYO – Mykayla Skinner thought her gymnastics career was over a week ago, now she’s a silver medalist.
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