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• Simone Biles: Rising review – the greatest gymnast of all time sets the record straight

  17-07-2024 06:00
  
  Through extraordinary access to Biles, this dramatic docuseries takes on the dark side of being an elite athlete. It’s a touching plea for compassion that sets up her Olympics return beautifullyIf you watched Simone Biles: Rising only to marvel at what the most decorated gymnast in history can do, that would be a couple of hours well spent. It is astonishing to see her moving through the air, rapidly contorting her body with such astounding motion that gymnastics is still having to adjust
  
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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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• 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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• 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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• Jordan Chiles says stripping of Olympic bronze took away ‘the person I am’

  11-09-2024 22:46
  Romanian athlete was awarded bronze over ChilesIOC ordered American to return Olympic medalUS gymnast Jordan Chiles has spoken about the emotional fallout after she was stripped of the bronze medal she won at this summer’s Paris Olympics.“The biggest thing that was taken from me was, it was the recognition of who I was. Not just my sport, but the person I am,” she said, her voice breaking at times with emotion, during an appearance at the Forbes Power Women’s Summit on We
  
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• The long road to make the US a force in men’s gymnastics

  11-09-2024 12:00
  American stars such as Simone Biles have made Olympic golds seem routine. But there is a drive to make their male counterparts dominant in the sport tooIn late July the five members of the United States men’s gymnastics team ended a 16-year medal drought when they clinched bronze in Paris. Asher Hong, Paul Juda, Brody Malone, Fred Richard, and Stephen Nedoroscik were instantly turned into fodder for everything from extensive dives into the sport to Superman memes. When the dust settled, it
  
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• US Olympic gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik joins Dancing with the Stars

  22-08-2024 17:29
  ‘Pommel horse guy’ becomes first confirmed cast member for reality show’s 33rd season premiering 17 SeptemberThe US Olympic gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik will appear on the new Dancing with the Stars season, ABC’s Good Morning America hosts announced on Thursday.“I want to bring some of that gymnastics – maybe a backflip or handstand. I want to have fun with it,” Nedoroscik told GMA hosts Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos and Gio Benitez. Continue readin
  
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• Max Whitlock: ‘Scott whacked me in the leg and said: “You’re the Olympic champion”’

  17-08-2024 09:00
  Six-time Olympic medallist, who missed a bronze in Paris by 0.1 points in his last event before retirement, reflects on friendships, family, teamwork and achievementMax Whitlock was warming up for his pommel horse final at the Paris Olympics when his South Korean rival Hur Woong approached him and translated a message into his phone. “It said he’s been watching me for over 10 years and he’s learned a lot from me,” says the 31-year-old. “It’s a surreal feeling
  
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• Jordan Chiles says ‘unjust’ stripping of Olympic bronze has led to racist abuse

  15-08-2024 21:33
  Romanian athlete was awarded bronze over ChilesIOC has said American must return Olympic medalJordan Chiles says she has been left “heartbroken” by the decision to strip her of her Olympic bronze medal and says she has been exposed to racially motivated abuse on social media.The US gymnast was initially given bronze in the floor exercise at the Paris Olympics after an appeal over how the judges scored her routine was accepted and she moved from fifth to third place. However, the Roma
  
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• Why does Jordan Chiles have to return her Olympic gymnastics medal? – video

  14-08-2024 15:22
  The American sports writer Beau Dure explains how an incorrect ruling made in haste has resulted in the US gymnast Jordan Chiles being asked to return her Olympic bronze medal, despite potential evidence that she is indeed deserving of it. During the Paris Games, Chiles was not awarded points that she should have been for one of her routines. USA Gymnastics put in an inquiry which was accepted, however the court of arbitration for sport (CAS) concluded that they were four seconds too slow in doi
  
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• Head of panel in Jordan Chiles appeal worked on cases for Romanian government

  14-08-2024 15:18
  Dr Hamid G Gharavi previously represented RomaniaRomanian athlete was awarded bronze over ChilesCas says Gharavi had declared work with RomaniaA new detail has emerged in the battle over Jordan Chiles’s Olympic bronze medal, a saga which has overshadowed a thrilling gymnastics competition at the Paris Games.Chiles was initially given bronze in the floor exercise after an appeal over how the judges scored her routine was accepted and she moved from fifth to third place. However, the Romania
  
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• Paris Olympics 2024: Guardian photographers at the Games – picture essay

  13-08-2024 21:00
  Among 1,578 accredited photographers in the French capital were three covering the Games for the Guardian and ObserverAfter the Covid-affected Olympics in Tokyo, Paris 2024 welcomed the return of packed stadiums, venues and also photographer enclosures. Among the 1,578 accredited photographers were three covering the Games for the Guardian and Observer.A multiple exposure shot of Alice D’Amato performing on the vault during the final of the women’s gymnastics team all-around where th
  
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