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Simone Biles makes history with Yurchenko double pike vault in return to competition at U.S. Classic play Are you kidding me Simone Biles? (0:17) Check out Simone Biles land a Yurchenko Double Pike which has never been performed by a woman in a gymnastics competition. (0:17) Time on her hands and a world-class gym at her disposal after the 2020 Olympics were postponed, Simone Biles started experimenting almost as a way to stave off the monotony of training. Pretty soon a vault that she occasion...

Simone Biles and her ever-expanding array of signature skills sure look ready for the Tokyo Olympics

Biles makes history in return at U.S. Classic; Vancouver’s Chiles 2nd in all-around One spot still to be determined for Olympic team By WILL GRAVES, Associated Press Published: May 22, 2021, 6:51pm Share: 7 Photos Simone Biles performs her balance beam routine during the U.S. Classic gymnastics competition in Indianapolis, Saturday, May 22, 2021. (AP Photo/AJ Mast) Photo Gallery Time on her hands and a world-class gym at her disposal after the 2020 Olympics were postp...

What If Everything We Know About Gymnastics Is Wrong? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/04/magazine/gymnastics-abuse.html Chellsie Memmel, 32, was a member of the 2008 Olympics gymnastics team and hopes to make a comeback for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo this year.Credit...Cait Oppermann for The New York Times Sections What If Everything We Know About Gymnastics Is Wrong? In the wake of a seismic scandal, Chellsie Memmel and other gymnasts are done with inhumane coaching — and the idea that the...

LONATO, Italy, 14th April, 2021 (WAM) -- Young Emirati karting star Rashid Al Dhaheri continued his new racing season with a fantastic win at the prestigious World Series Karting Euro Series. The victory adds to his impressive results this season, where Rashid has already won three of the four World Series Karting competitions in 2021 making him the man to beat in the OK-Junior category. Flying the Red-White-Black Parolin colours, Rashid (No 342) once more demonstrated his winning abilities as ...

ArkLaTex gymnast secures herself a spot on the 2021 U.S. Junior Women’s National Team “Now she is in like the top 5 in the United States in the junior age division,” her coach says Joscelyn Roberson, 15, of Texarkana, Texas, posted the day’s high score on the balance beam (13.8) in the junior division during the 2021 Winter Cup. (Source: Fred Gamble/KSLA News 12) By Fred Gamble and Curtis Heyen | March 8, 2021 at 3:31 PM CST - Updated March 9 at 1:03 AM TEXARKANA, T...

Laurie Hernandez performs energetic Hamilton-inspired floor routine as she competes in her first gymnastics meet since the 2016 Olympics - less than a year after opening up about her former coachs horrific emotional abuse Hernandez, 20, made her official return to the gymnastics circuit on Saturday at the 2021 Winter Cup in Indianapolis  The gymnast, who helped Team USA win gold at the 2016 Olympic Games, wore a Captain Marvel-inspired leotard that earned Brie Larsons stamp of approval  Herna...

Mar 1, 2021 Yokohama – Teenage phenom Yuki Kawamura wrapped up his second stint in the B. League with the Yokohama B-Corsairs over the weekend and admitted this had been the most underwhelming season of his promising young career. Speaking during a news conference following a 92-65 loss to the Kawasaki Brave Thunders on Saturday at Yokohama International Swimming Pool, the 19-year-old said it had been a “difficult season” and that he didn’t feel like he’d met his own high exp...

Prairie High alum Jordan Chiles wins Winter Cup Two-time Olympic medalist Laurie Hernandez is back on the competition floor By Columbian news services Share: 4 Photos Jordan Chiles performs in the floor exercise during the Winter Cup gymnastics competition Saturday at Indianapolis. (Associated Press) Photo Gallery Prairie High grad Jordan Chiles — who contemplated leaving elite gymnastics to focus on her impending college career at UCLA — posted the highest all-arou...

Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez enjoys solid return at Winter Cup The nerves were there. They were unavoidable, really. Yet rather than greet them with anxiety or fear as she did the last time she stood on the competition floor, Laurie Hernandez embraced them. Yes, its been more than four years -- a lifetime and then some in womens gymnastics -- since she walked off the podium at the 2016 Olympics with a star-making smile and a pair of medals around her neck. Her journey since leaving Brazil i...