The U.S. Women’s Silver Medal Was a Triumph

It ought to go without saying that Biles does not owe any of us an explanation—or any gymnastics. While we all want to know what happened, why she scratched isn’t even really what’s important here. What is important is that a grown adult athlete...

‘I Didn’t Think the Sport Wanted Me Anymore’

Jordan Chiles felt numb. She looked around her bedroom in Vancouver, Wash., at the dozens of medals, the rainbows of ribbons, the trophies standing in formation, all from a gymnastics career that started when she was 6. None of it meant a thing. She asked her mother,...