Just over three years removed from competing in the 2021 U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials, MyKayla Skinner sat relatively comfortably inside her home in American Fork Friday night alongside her husband Jonas Harmer and their daughter Charlotte — the latter is just beginning to figure out how to stand — and watched former teammates such as Simone Biles, Sunisa Lee, Jordan Chiles and Jade Carey compete in the 2024 trials.
During a two and a half hour virtual watch party on YouTube that Skinner hosted, the Olympic silver medalist weighed in on anything and everything related to Friday night’s competition, the first of the two-night Olympic trials that will determine the American women’s Olympic team for the Paris Games this summer.
Amid critiques of routines and skills and postulation about what the American team will end up looking like, Skinner shared her feelings about her own Olympic experience, her future in the sport of gymnastics and much more.
The former University of Utah star is done competing as a gymnast, she made that clear — well she may have been jokingly opaque about it — but the sport remains a part of her.