Podium training is not an opportunity for the gymnasts to practice receiving their medals and singing along to their national anthems, despite what the name might imply. Instead, it's a chance for the ...
If you're watching gymnastics during the 2024 Paris Olympics, you will likely come across the pommel horse routine. The pommel horse is one of the six apparatuses men use during a gymnastics ...
UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi’s new floor routine earned a perfect 10 at the Collegiate Challenge in Anaheim last Saturday, helping UCLA win the quad-meet against Cal, Michigan State and UC Davis, and ...
The final score sheet is never the full story of a college gymnastics meet. What it displays is the six scores from every one of the four events. What it never shows is that there is always a gymnast ...
Team USA gymnasts Jordan Chiles, Hezly Rivera, Jade Carey, Simone Biles and Sunisa Lee look to pop stars for their floor routines at the 2024 Paris Olympics. (Aytac Unal/Anadolu via Getty Images) Are ...
Aditi Malhotra is an independent journalist based in San Francisco. She writes about education and science with a special focus on diversity and representation. She was a 2017-18 Fellow with The ...
As a daughter of parents who own a gymnastics school business, Corrie Lothrop knows something about the sport and how difficult it is for most people to succeed in it. But Lothrop is not most people.
Utah gymnastics coach Tom Farden still laughs about the time he first noticed Jaylene Gilstrap. He had no choice but to notice her. “There was this kid and she was nuts,” he said. “She was taking ...
The apparatus looks like an old wooden horse that ancient Romans used to practice mounting and dismounting in military training. Pommels come from the French word pomel, which means “knob”, or “hilt ...