Simone Biles is now the most decorated U.S. gymnast in the history of the republic.

The Paris Games have solidified the diminutive 27-year-old as an Olympic legend.

But, I’m worried: Is America’s Golden Girl at risk of becoming a Mean Girl?

Hours after Biles’s Team USA squad won the all-around final last week, she shared a picture of herself with her flag-draped teammates to Instagram.

Beaming in the flash of the cameras, they were radiant. They were America’s champions.

But, bizarrely, Biles captioned the post: ‘lack of talent, lazy, Olympic champions’.

Simone Biles is now the most decorated U.S. gymnast in the history of the republic.

 Die-hard gymnastics fans like me and my daughters (who spent years training and competing 20 hours a week in their childhoods) immediately knew what she meant — and who she was taking aim at.

Is Simone Biles becoming a mean girl?

Yes

No

In June, soon after the Team USA roster was announced ahead of the summer games, Biles’s former teammate, silver-medalist MyKayla Skinner, blabbed in a since-deleted YouTube video about the current tumbling crop.

‘Besides Simone, I feel like the talent and the depth just isn’t what it used to be. The girls just don’t have the work ethic,’ Skinner bitched.

It was an obviously disprovable hot take. And when our gleaming girls stood proudly atop the podium, Skinner’s envious clout-chasing was exposed.

She even publicly apologized for the lame comments, which she moaned had been ‘taken out of context’. And that’s where it should’ve ended.

But Biles couldn’t let sleeping goats lie.

In post-competition interviews, she doubled down on the Insta revenge.

‘I just felt like it was right in that moment to stand up for [my teammates] because they’re so young and they haven’t fully stood in their power yet,’ she told People magazine.

Then it was Skinner’s turn to take to social, dramatically pleading with Biles in a series of posts this week to call off the attack dogs, even claiming that she and her family were receiving ‘death threats’ from cyber bullies.

They are America’s champions. But Biles captioned the post: ‘lack of talent, lazy, olympic champions.’

MyKayla Skinner claims Simone Biles post led to DEATH THREATS

Behind the rhinestones and spandex, Skinner well knows the fierce cut-throatery required to make it in elite gymnastics.

But Simone Biles is also Simone Biles. The self-styled Greatest Of All Time, with 12 million Instagram followers to Skinner’s 400,000, her own clothing line and enough muscle to take on Donald Trump.

As the saying doesn’t go: with seven golds comes responsibility.

Now, to be clear, my sympathies are with Simone.

She has inspired my girls and countless others by overcoming overwhelming odds.

Her fans know all about her incredible journey through the foster care system as a child, as well as her brave 2018 testimony against sex offender and ex-USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, who abused Biles and at least 130 other young girls.

Many of Biles’s teammates, including Gabby Douglas, McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman, were among the victims.

Maybe that’s why Skinner’s comments cut so deep, violating an unspoken pact among these women that they will always have each other’s backs.

And then there was Biles’s own collapse.

On the heels of Nassar’s sentencing, she was expected to dominate the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. When the moment came, she stumbled on the world stage and withdrew halfway through the competition, citing mental health struggles.

But Simone Biles is also Simone Biles. The self-styled Greatest Of All Time, with 12 million Instagram followers to Skinner’s 400,000, her own clothing line and enough muscle to take on Donald Trump.

‘Besides Simone, I feel like the talent and the depth just isn’t what it used to be. The girls just don’t have the work ethic,’ Skinner (pictured left) said.

She even flirted with retirement before recommitting herself to the sport, marrying NFL star Jonathan Owens, and pulling off one of the greatest comeback stories in athletic history.

She is a nearly unparalleled, inspirational firework.

So why choose to become a lightning rod?

America’s children today are forced to grow up in a toxic, destructive quagmire of social media negativity.

Simone — I beg you — rise above all this, instead of punching down at an irrelevant has-been.

Accept Skinner’s apology. End this unnecessary online bullying from your fans, call out the cyber threats – and be the shining example in your public life that you are on the Olympic podium.

A woman who has overcome so much can surely conquer this petty childishness.

Walz fall down 

Maybe Kamala Harris just has bad taste in men – because her new running mate pick, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, is arguably the worst kind of politician.

He masquerades as a folksy centrist, but he’s just another gutless progressive willing to risk your safety for his political ambitions.

During the 2020 George Floyd riots, he lollygagged while Minneapolis, the largest city in his state, burned – dragging his feet for three whole days before deploying the National Guard.

Don’t take it from me.

A scathing Senate post-mortem determined that Walz had failed miserably – delaying for too long, and sending too few National Guardsmen when he did finally respond.

But his riot-friendly daughter Hope Walz, now 23, was certainly busy.

Kamala Harris introduces Tim Walz as her running mate

As the city burned on May 28, 2020, she tweeted: ‘the guard WILL NOT be present arresting people tonight.’

That same Senate Committee report found that Timid Tim had allowed Hope ‘access [to] confidential information that she then disseminated to the rioters,’ which ‘unnecessarily put police, Minnesota State Troopers, and the Minnesota National Guard in jeopardy.’

Nice family.

On top of all that, Walz has now been exposed for embellishing his own Army National Guard service record.

He claimed to have ‘carried’ weapons ‘in war,’ but he was only ever deployed to Italy and Norway (real hot zones!).

Tim and lying nanny-shagger Doug Emhoff will get along just fine.

Dirty Dougie 

Talking of our red-faced Second Gentleman:

After Dumpy Doug came clean last week about sleeping with his young family’s buxom-blonde caretaker during his first marriage to ex-wife Kerstin, Kamala insiders insist she knew about the forbidden tryst though has nonetheless been left ‘humiliated and unnerved’.

And she wasn’t talking about her Tim Walz pick!

BEAR-ly believable 

Tin-foil-hat nut RFK Jr wildly admitted this week to dumping a dead bear in New York’s Central Park and staging the scene to make it look like a bike accident because he thought it would be ‘amusing’.

The stunt sparked an infamous unsolved mystery – and marks the first time this Kennedy outcast has debunked a conspiracy instead of stoking one.

Tin-foil-hat nut RFK Jr wildly admitted this week to dumping a dead bear (above) in New York’s Central Park and staging the scene to make it look like a bike accident because he thought it would be ‘amusing’.

Pole problems  

French pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati became a global phenom after very intimately botching an Olympic attempt last weekend.

Let’s just say his package did not deliver when his baguette sent the Paris crossbar crashing down and dashing his medal dreams.

Ammirati did not directly address the incident, rather he expressed regret, saying: ‘It’s a big disappointment.’

I’m sure it is.

Awkward moment Anthony Ammirati gets his crotch stuck on crossbar

My congratulations to rapper Machine Gun Kelly, who has celebrated a year of sobriety after a rehab stint.

Though I fear he’s still battling a deeper addiction: the need for attention.

He and actress Megan Fox broke off their engagement last year though still refuse to define their union, teasing in interviews that they are ‘twin souls’.

Meanwhile, she’s boasted about how they drink vials of each other’s blood (‘for ritual purposes only’) and MGK has embarked on a painful publicity stunt, tattooing his entire torso and arms black.

He and actress Megan Fox broke off their engagement last year though still refuse to define their union, teasing in interviews that they are ‘twin souls’.

Too hot for Paris 

Hottie Paraguayan swimmer Luana Alonso was booted from the Olympic Village this week after it was deemed she had created an ‘inappropriate atmosphere’.

While no further details have been officially divulged, some subsequent reports claimed that Alonso’s skimpy outfits and readiness to flash her bombshell bod while out of the pool had been distracting to other athletes.

Hottie Paraguayan swimmer Luana Alonso was booted from the Olympic Village this week after it was deemed she had created an ‘inappropriate atmosphere’.

Can you blame her?

She failed to even make it beyond the first round of her 100m butterfly event, perhaps she’ll find better luck posting sultry snaps on OnlyFans.

Great Scott! 

Last year, interminably single Senator Tim Scott was dragged by naysayers who scoffed that his rapid engagement to glamorous interior designer Mindy Noce was orchestrated to boost his chances of being picked as Trump’s VP.

But now that couch-crazy J.D. Vance has nabbed that job, Scott has put lurid speculation to bed, marrying Noce last Saturday in sunny Charleston.

Scott has long committed his life to a staunch Christian faith, practicing abstinence for most of his 58 years. I hope this happy union was worth his wait.