Yes, the U.S. named the Paris Olympic team on Sunday night, and for the first time since 1952, the Americans will send four female gymnasts to their second Games. And a sport once seen as the provenance of teenagers will be fronted by adults. The U.S. squad, among the deepest in t...
Historical trends of the size of US Olympic female artistic gymnasts. Int J Sports Physiol Perf. 2012;7:350-6.Sands, W. A., Slater, C., McNeal, J. R., Murray, S. R., & Stone, M. H. (2012). Historical trends in the size of US Olympic ...
skip to main content olympic gymnast mary lou retton is fangirling over simone biles, just like all of us olympic gymnast mary lou retton is fangirling over simone biles, just like all of us at the 1984 summer olympics, retton became the first female gymnast to ever win gold for team ...
To see where your favorite Olympic gymnasts have landed, keep reading. Rich Clarkson / Rich Clarkson & Associates Cathy Rigby A pioneer in the sport, she was among the first female athletes to help popularize gymnastics in the nation, thanks to...
The Olympic gold medallist told the Senate judiciary committee that "enough is enough" as she and three other US gymnasts spoke about the lasting toll Nassar's crimes have taken on their lives.
The acrobatic handsprings, somersaults and twists performed by world-class gymnasts at the Tokyo Olympics are among the most complex skills humans can perform.
verbal and emotional abuse in which girls were forced to train on broken bones and other injuries. That culture was tacitly endorsed by the sport’s governing body and institutionalized by Bela and Martha Karolyi, the husband-and-wife duo who coached America’s top female gymnasts for three ...
Chinese Gymnasts When the female Chinese gymnastics team took to the mat at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, many questioned whether the athletes were actually younger than the required age of 16. After looking into four of the gymnasts' official documentation, the International Olympic Committee concluded...
On Sunday night, Simone Biles made history once again, defying physics, gravity and precedent by becoming the oldest female gymnast to make an Olympic team in 72 years. In the first tumbling pass of her floor routine, the 27-year-old launched herself 12 feet in the air, a superhu...
AfterUSA took team goldearlier this week, making Biles the most decorated American gymnast ever at the Games, the 27-year-old will compete again in the all-around final for a chance to win her ninth Olympic medal – and sixth gold. ...