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• Simone Biles: how she breaks the boundaries of gymnastics

  23-07-2021 20:35 via theguardian.com
  
  How the Olympic favourite and superstar gymnast pulls off one of the most difficult – and dangerous – moves in her sportSimone Biles’s iconic status is not afforded just because she is the gold medal favourite going into the Tokyo Olympics and the dominant force in women’s artistic gymnastics for a decade. Nor is it based on the fact she out-performs her peers and predecessors – male and female – in international medal counts. Rather, it is bestowed because th
  
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• Simone Biles’ desire to innovate is frustrated by her own insular sport | Tumaini Carayol

  23-07-2021 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The WTC’s refusal to properly reward new skills is in danger of creating a world where gymnastic routines are tediously similarIn the final fleeting month before the Olympics two of the best gymnasts in the world showed for the first time similar uneven bar skills of the highest difficulty only days apart. Both Sanne Wevers and Nina Derwael performed slightly different variants of the iconic Nabieva release, in which the gymnasts launch themselves above and beyond the high bar with their l
  
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• Uzbek legend Oksana Chusovitina set for one final attempt at Olympic glory | Tumaini Carayol

  23-07-2021 14:54 via theguardian.com
  
  An astonishing Olympic career that began in 1991, and has spanned four different teams, is poised to come to a close in JapanSo much can happen in the sporting world across four years alone, but throughout the Olympic cycles in recent memory, during a period in which thousands of athletes have had long and fruitful careers before departing into the night, one of the few certainties at each Olympics has been the enduring presence of Oksana Chusovitina.As a gymnast in a sport dominated for so long
  
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