by admin | Aug 22, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Cecile Landi ended her coaching marathon at the Olympics by guiding the world’s best gymnast to the final flourish of her redemptive comeback. Landi had counseled Simone Biles three years ago in Tokyo, where she withdrew from nearly every event because of a mental...
by admin | Aug 8, 2024 | Representation, SEW
In 1976, Nadia Comaneci, the 14-year-old Romanian athlete, won gold with the first perfect 10 ever scored in the Olympics. After that, the ranks of elite female gymnasts – which previously included women in their 20s and 30s – filled with adolescents and young teens....
by admin | Aug 6, 2024 | Representation, SEW
A heartwarming display of sportsmanship by two American gymnasts has won praise from fans in a viral moment that lit up social media and is likely to become another enduring image of the Paris Olympics. It all happened Monday when Brazilian gymnastics gold medalist...
by admin | Aug 5, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Simone Biles fell short of gold on Monday’s beam and floor final events. She won gold in the women’s individual all-around event last week and in vault over the weekend. Biles now has 11 Olympic medals — the most ever by an American gymnast. Jordan Chiles secured a...
by admin | Aug 1, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Three years after withdrawing from the team final of the Tokyo Olympics with a mental block, a move that prompted critics to call her a loser, a quitter and un-American, Simone Biles on Thursday proved to the world — and to herself — that she was unstoppable. Biles,...
by admin | Jul 31, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Simone Biles, Jordan Chiles and Sunisa Lee spent the night before perhaps the biggest gymnastics meet of their lives restless. There was a tension in the air. They’d all been in the Olympic spotlight before, experiences that left them with medals but also the kind of...
by admin | May 2, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Top British gymnast Ondine Achampong is expected to miss this summer’s Paris Olympics after announcing Monday that she tore her ACL. The 20-year-old says she’s “devastated” about the knee injury, which typically takes a year to recover from after surgery. Read...
by admin | Apr 26, 2024 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
a $138.7 million settlement deal with victims of the disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar to resolve their claims of wrongdoing against the FBI in its failures to investigate allegations of sexual abuse. “For decades, Lawrence Nassar abused his...
by admin | Apr 25, 2024 | Representation, SEW
For a brief spell Thursday night, the LSU women’s gymnastics team wasn’t performing like a title contender. Coach Jay Clark had tried to avoid overhyping the NCAA semifinal, but as a result, his team came out emotionally flat, he said, with the first few gymnasts...
by admin | Apr 24, 2024 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
The US Justice Department has agreed to pay approximately $100m to settle claims with about 100 people who say they were sexually assaulted by disgraced doctor Larry Nassar, a source with direct knowledge of the negotiations has told The Associated Press. The deal has...
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