Gymnastics

A sense of doubt had plagued the sport since Biles’s withdrawal from the Tokyo Games. The team’s success in Paris should definitively quash it.

It used to be assumed that a gymnast’s peak came around sixteen years of age. So why will the Olympic team be stocked with women in their twenties?

From Simone Biles to Raven Saunders, athletes modelled a more vulnerable approach to individual struggle.

The gymnast said that her return to Olympic competition on Tuesday was something she did for herself.

Without Simone Biles, U.S. women’s gymnastics seemed likely to end its gold-medal streak in the all-around competition. Instead, a new champion had her moment.

Biles’s decision not to compete on Tuesday is, to many spectators, a heartbreak. It is also a welcome example of an athlete setting her own limits.

The two-time Olympic gymnast discusses the sport’s recent reckonings—and all the work that’s left to be done.

There were a number of turning points in the sports world in 2019. Some were smoothed into the flow of seasons; others involved the purposeful bending of the normal course of events.

Many gymnasts now sacrifice form and safety to eke out brassy, high-scoring skills. One of the wonders of Biles, though, is that she pairs immense difficulty with impeccable execution.

One of the many remarkable things about Biles is that she makes empowerment and self-confidence seem uncomplicated.

In the time since the physician’s imprisonment, a number of journalistic investigations have shifted the public’s focus to the stories of his lesser-known victims, exposing the culture that enabled his abuse.

Despite a series of setbacks at the World Championships, Biles became the first female gymnast in history to win four world all-around gold medals.

In the days before his leather-and-cowboy-hat look, Roy Moore was a West Point gymnast in the model of an earlier Roy Moore, “the father of American gymnastics.”