Over the years, gymnastics routines have become very formulaic and predictable, with most gymnasts performing the same range of skills because the Code of Points doesn't promote diversity and ...
In women's artistic gymnastics, two significant events are the floor exercise and the balance beam. The floor exercise, the fourth event in the Olympic order, requires gymnasts to perform a 90-second ...
This post was updated Jan. 25 at 10:49 p.m. Balance beam defined UCLA gymnastics in 2016. Nearly a decade later – and eight years after a national championship was decided on the event’s final routine ...
The past several years of Sunisa “Suni” Lee’s life have been a delicate balance. Shortly after winning the women’s all-around gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the gymnast embarked on a ...
The U.S. women's gymnastics team has among the highest difficulty scores on one of the most difficult gymnastic events: the balance beam. Olympic gymnasts have a ...
Brooklyn Moors battled a classic case of the yips. Call it a hurdle to jump over or an obstacle to conquer — the Canadian graduate student said she couldn’t “flip backward.” “It’s tough because if you ...
Simone Biles' drive for five Olympic gold medals is over. The Olympic all-around champion wobbled during the middle of her routine during balance beam finals Monday. She landed awkwardly while ...