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• Simone Biles’ coach says gymnast suffered from ‘twisties’ before 2016 Olympics

  21-04-2025 18:20
  Condition disrupted American’s performance in 2021Former coach reveals new details in bookSimone Biles suffered from the “twisties” in the run-up to the 2016 Olympics, five years before the condition severely disrupted her performance at the Tokyo Games.Aimee Boorman, Biles’s longtime coach, outlines the story in her new book, The Balance: My Years Coaching Simone Biles. The twisties cause gymnasts to lose their orientation while in the air, a dangerous situation in a spo
  
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• An Ohio high school is on one of the greatest winning streaks in sports. What’s the secret?

  06-03-2026 10:00
  For over two decades the Brecksville-Broadview Heights Bees have ruled Ohio high school gymnastics. On Saturday, they pursue a remarkable 23rd consecutive state titleAs Brecksville-Broadview Heights gymnasts, seniors Rachel Kirin and Kyla Haverdill know that there’s only one expectation for how the season ends on Saturday: with the Ohio high school state title.“It’s definitely a lot of pressure,” said Haverdill, who has been doing gymnastics since she was a baby. “M
  
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• World Sports Photography Awards 2026 winners revealed – in pictures

  17-01-2026 20:00
  More than 4,120 photographers from 123 countries submitted a record-breaking 23,130 images across the 24 categories to this year’s World Sports Photography awards, the only global competition for sporting photography.To see the silver, bronze and special merit images from all of the categories click here Continue reading...
  
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• Jim Hartung, Olympic champion with historic 1984 US gymnastics team, dies aged 65

  13-01-2026 18:34
  Olympic champion on historic 1984 US teamNebraska legend with seven NCAA titlesLongtime coach and international judgeJim Hartung, a two-time Olympian who helped lead the 1984 US team to its first and only gold medal in men’s gymnastics, has died. He was 65.The University of Nebraska announced Hartung died Saturday night. He had been a Cornhuskers assistant coach for 19 years. No cause of death was given. Continue reading...
  
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• DoJ says Jeffrey Epstein letter to Larry Nassar referencing Trump is fake

  23-12-2025 22:22
  Justice department says FBI confirmed letter is fake and lists why it was not deemed genuine by authoritiesThe Department of Justice said on Tuesday afternoon that a disturbing letter released as part of the Epstein files and appearing to be from the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to convicted sex abuser and former Olympic gymnastics coach Larry Nassar is a fake.The contents of the purported letter dated 2019 were released by the DoJ early on Tuesday and had appeared to have been written by E
  
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• Brody Malone caps strong US gymnastics worlds with second high bar gold

  25-10-2025 16:37
  Malone edges Hashimoto for high bar goldBritain’s Joe Fraser takes bronze medalWhittenburg wins first world title on still ringsBrody Malone capped an impressive meet by the US at the world gymnastics championships, earning the second gold medal on high bar of his career during event finals on Saturday.The 25-year-old American put together a thrilling set on the high-risk, high-reward apparatus, throwing a series of releases that propelled him to a 14.933, just ahead of world all-around ch
  
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• Sports quiz of the week: Arsenal, Ashes, Ange Postecoglou and a new season

  24-10-2025 09:01
  Have you been following the big stories in football, rugby, gymnastics, boxing, cricket and motor sport? Continue reading...
  
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• Gym owner says she reported grooming concerns about coach years before arrest in sex abuse case

  30-08-2025 00:41
  Parents, athletes raised red flags about GardnerChow, USA Gymnastics slow to act on complaintsSafeSport sanctioned coaches who failed to reportLong before his banishment from gymnastics and arrest after accusations he abused girls he coached, warning signs about Sean Gardner were coming from several directions – his former boss, his gymnasts and their parents.The former boss says she brought her concerns about Gardner’s “grooming” behavior to USA Gymnastics, the sport&rsq
  
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• Ex-coach at renowned US gymnastics academy arrested on child sexual abuse images charge

  19-08-2025 13:07
  Sean Gardner accused of abusing gymnasts at Iowa clubSafeSport suspended coach in 2022 but case unresolvedFBI found hidden camera images of nude girls in MayThe US gymnastics world was only just recovering from a devastating sexual abuse scandal when a promising young coach moved from Mississippi to Iowa to take a job in 2018 at an elite academy known for training Olympic champions.Liang “Chow” Qiao, the owner of Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute in West Des Moines, thought
  
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• Hezly Rivera sends message for LA 2028 Olympics by taking US gymnastics national title

  11-08-2025 14:06
  Gold medallist at Paris 2024 takes home national title17-year-old says she learned from Simone BilesHezly Rivera was the fresh face a year ago. The teenager on a team of 20-something Olympic gymnasts, doing her best to absorb what she could from Simone Biles, Sunisa Lee, Jade Carey and Jordan Chiles.The one thing that stood out, even more than the sometimes otherworldly gymnastics, is the way her fellow gold-medal-winning teammates went about their business. Continue reading...
  
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• Why female athletes are challenging the NCAA’s $2.8bn settlement

  14-06-2025 10:30
  
  Eight women have appealed the NCAA’s antitrust deal, arguing it violates Title IX and unfairly favors men’s sports. Here’s what the settlement does and what’s nextCollege athletes spent decades fighting for the right to make money from their name, image and likeness (NIL). In 2021, they won. Now, a $2.8bn NCAA settlement is set to compensate hundreds of thousands of current and former athletes who missed out on those earnings. But not everyone thinks the deal is fair.Eigh
  
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• Simone Biles slams ‘sore loser’ Riley Gaines over attacks on trans athlete

  07-06-2025 17:04
  Biles calls Gaines ‘sick’ in response to softball postGymnast defends trans girl targeted after title winGaines calls Biles’ stance on inclusion ‘disappointing’Seven-time Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles has publicly condemned former competitive swimmer Riley Gaines for her repeated attacks on transgender athletes, calling Gaines “sick” and a “sore loser” in a strongly worded social media post.The exchange erupted Friday night after Gaines
  
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• Olympic champion Mary Lou Retton arrested for DUI in West Virginia

  27-05-2025 15:17
  Former gymnast was released after posting bondRetton won five medals at 1984 Summer OlympicsOlympic gymnastics champion Mary Lou Retton was arrested for DUI earlier this month, according to records on the West Virginia Judiciary website.The 57-year-old was charged with “driving under influence of alcohol, controlled substances, or drugs” on 17 May after police responded to reports of someone driving a Porsche erratically. According to the records, Retton was slurring her words when p
  
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• Simone Biles unsure of competing at 2028 LA Olympics: ‘My body is aging’

  22-04-2025 20:03
  American has won seven Olympics goldsBiles would be 31 at the start of next Summer GamesSimone Biles says she is unsure whether she will compete at the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.The 28-year-old says she has other priorities, and is mindful of the demands her sport puts on her body at an age when most elite gymnasts have long since retired. Biles will be 31 when the LA Olympics start: the oldest all-around female gymnastics champion is Maria Gorokhovskaya, who won gold at the age of 30 at the
  
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• Oklahoma edge Jordan Chiles’ UCLA for seventh NCAA gymnastics crown

  20-04-2025 03:16
  Sooners conquer 2024 demons to capture NCAA crownOklahoma better UCLA (second) and Missouri (third)Richard and Juda help Michigan to NCAA men’s titleAudrey Davis delivered a 9.9250 on the uneven bars in the final rotation and Jordan Bowers followed with a 9.8875 to help Oklahoma secure their seventh NCAA women’s gymnastics championship on Saturday at Dickies Arena.The Sooners, who have now won six titles since 2016 under head coach KJ Kindler, finished with 198.0125 points – pu
  
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• LA 2028 Olympics adds swimming sprints and mixed-gender gymnastics

  09-04-2025 19:59
  LA28 will feature 28 more medal events than Paris 2024Female athletes will outnumber men for the first timeMixed-gender events added in artistic gymnastics, golfSprint-distance swimming races and mixed-gender events in artistic gymnastics and golf are among the additions to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games, after the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) approval of a record 351 medal events on Wednesday.The LA28 schedule includes the Olympic debuts of the 50m backstroke, breaststroke
  
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• Yes, I have just done a naked forward roll. But there was a good reason | Adrian Chiles

  03-04-2025 12:00
  There I was, lying in bed and worrying I’d lost a basic life skill. Can you blame me for putting it to the test?When I was in the first year at middle school, in Miss Hale’s class, my parents returned from a parents’ evening looking disappointed. My nine-year-old self picked up on this. It wasn’t my schoolwork: that was OK. It was that the teacher had revealed that in PE I was the only one in the class who couldn’t do a forward roll.This was true. It wasn’t th
  
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• A golden example of trickle-down economics | Brief letters

  31-03-2025 17:59
  Welsh mining | Bridget Christie | Ancient Greek | Nuuk ambitions | April foolYour report on the revival of gold mining in north Wales (Going for gold: coin marks hope of bringing Welsh mine back from the dead, 26 March)( made me recall a summer I spent camping in the area in the 1970s, when, in the village pub, I enjoyed the stories of locals who had worked in the mine. One theme was how the proceeds of illicitly siphoned gold had funded new houses in the locality. If true, this i
  
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• Gymnastics’ embrace of Russians highlights neutrality’s blurred lines

  31-03-2025 09:00
  FIG’s endorsement of Angelina Melnikova raises eyebrows, as does its president’s hug for propagandist Nikita NagornyyUpon his arrival in Moscow this month, Morinari Watanabe, the president of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), made a curious decision. As he emerged for meetings, Watanabe was greeted by the gymnast Nikita Nagornyy. The pair embraced in a warm hug before the cameras.Across his decade on the Russian men’s national team, Nagornyy established himself as
  
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• The big picture: a Chad gymnast scores top marks for determination

  30-03-2025 08:00
  Behind Antonio López Díaz’s image of the inspirational Achta Derib is a story of how small changes can transform livesThe wall behind her is pockmarked and worn. She’s barefoot against a hard, cracked floor. And yet Achta Derib’s pose in this photograph by Antonio López Díaz, a finalist in the professional sports category at the Sony world photography awards, suggests reserves of determination that will carry her across continents to perform at the highe
  
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• Former Melbourne gymnastics coach charged with seven child sex offences

  24-03-2025 01:58
  Ross Bouskill’s lawyer says he plans to defend chargesBouskill was a mentor to hundreds of Victorian gymnastsA high-profile gymnastics coach, trainer of multiple Olympians and long-time owner of one of Melbourne’s largest gym providers has been charged with seven child sex offences.Ross Bouskill, former owner of Jets Gymnastics, appeared via video link at Heidelberg Magistrates’ Court in Melbourne on Monday. Continue reading...
  
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• Livvy Dunne on the draw of gymnastics’ perfect 10

  05-02-2025 10:30
  The LSU star and one of America’s most media-savvy athletes drew criticism for her call for more maximum scores. But she promises she has the sport’s best interests at heartLivvy Dunne is worried about the future of women’s college gymnastics. The NIL powerhouse, who has scored major brand deals with Vuori and American Eagle, among others, has started her final season with the national champion LSU Tigers. But she’s made the biggest splash in this young season on social m
  
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• Agnes Keleti, oldest living Olympic gold medallist, dies at 103

  02-01-2025 12:09
  Hungarian gymnast survived persecution of Jews in second world war and won five golds across two GamesThe world’s oldest living Olympic gold medallist, the Hungarian gymnast Agnes Keleti, who escaped the Holocaust with false identity papers and the Soviet Union’s brutal clampdown on her home country by emigrating to Israel, has died aged 103.Keleti, who did not compete in an Olympics until she was 31 but won more medals than anyone else at the Melbourne Games, died on Thursday in Bud
  
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• Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles and Rebeca Andrade summed up the incredible spirit of the Olympics. Now, it’s been tainted

  30-12-2024 10:00
  Arguments still rage about the decision to strip gymnast Chiles of her bronze medal. But one thing is clear: the Games’ organisers failed to live up to the event’s valuesAs Rebeca Andrade, Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles stood behind the podium at the medal ceremony for the Olympic women’s gymnastics floor exercise in Paris, the significance of the moment was clear to all. Their collective success marked the first time in history that three black gymnasts had won bronze, silver
  
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• Generation TikTok: how sportswomen set the bar higher than the men

  22-12-2024 09:00
  
  Female athlete power on social media became ever more strident in 2024 – but the backlash also damaged careers and wellbeingLina Nielsen remembers the moment she had the idea. She was sitting around the Olympic Village in Paris with her sprinting teammates – and she was bored. “I said to Yemi Mary John: ‘I’m gonna make this TikTok’,” Nielsen recalls. She took herself to her bedroom, got out the flip phone each athlete had been given and typed into an Exc
  
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• We must educate sporting leaders to look beyond toxic win-at-all-costs approaches | Cath Bishop

  09-12-2024 09:00
  Danny Care’s whistleblowing suggests there remains too much of a grey area between tough training, bullying and abuseDanny Care’s stories about the England rugby environment under Eddie Jones reveal important insights into the ways that sport is experienced, organised and led. Beyond the shocking examples of belittling and bullying that he alleges, a picture emerges of an ongoing, highly damaging cultural illiteracy among players, coaches and leaders.It’s striking how hard it w
  
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• Is 61 too old to take up gymnastics? Not if you’re planning on living to 100

  17-11-2024 15:00
  The older I get, the more I want to play rather than just work out. Have I left it too late to learn a backflip, cartwheel or forward tuck – especially with a dodgy knee?How do you know when it’s time to slow down? I’ve been wondering that ever since I decided to live to 100. Sure, I may not make it; but if I do I expect exercise to play a huge part, alongside a healthy diet and (seriously, kids, this really isn’t rocket science) evidence-based medicine rather than wellne
  
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• Bela Karolyi, gymnastics coach who mentored Nadia Comaneci, dies aged 82

  17-11-2024 03:24
  Karolyi trained multiple Olympic gold medalists and help turn the US into an international gymnastics powerBela Karolyi, the charismatic if polarizing gymnastics coach who turned young women into champions and the US into an international power, has died. He was 82.USA Gymnastics said Karolyi died Friday. No cause of death was given. Continue reading...
  
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• Petition to save elite London gym where Spider-Man’s Tom Holland trained

  29-10-2024 07:00
  Charity that leases building sold to developers during Covid lockdown is told it must vacate it by ChristmasThe UK could lose out on future sporting champions after an elite youth training centre whose alumni include the Spider-Man star Tom Holland was sold to developers, campaigners have said.The East London Gymnastic Centre was built with lottery funding in 1997 to provide affordable coaching in a deprived part of the capital. Continue reading...
  
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• Jordan Chiles appeals to Swiss supreme court over stripping of Olympic bronze

  17-09-2024 04:38
  
  Romanian athlete was awarded bronze over ChilesIOC ordered American to return Olympic medalJordan Chiles is asking Switzerland’s supreme court to overturn a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that stripped the gymnast of a bronze medal in the floor exercise at the 2024 Olympics.Chiles, with the support of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee and USA Gymnastics, filed the appeal on Monday. Continue reading...
  
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