All posts tagged "Gymnastics"

SAN JOSE, Calif. — When it was all over and Simone Biles had finished her magical performance on the floor at the SAP Center, San Jose let her hear it. The entire place went into a frenzy, fans leaping to their feet, little girls crying and adults shaking their heads in disbelief. Biles hugged her coaches, fist-bumped her teammates, waved to the crowd and finally bent over to catch her breath. It was all over. With her high-flying floor routine in which she at one point took a symbolic bow before continuing on, Biles cruised to a dominant victory at the U.S. Gymnastics Championship in San Jose......

Los Angeles (AFP) - US gymnastics icon Simone Biles said on Monday she should have quit "way before Tokyo" but held onto her Olympic dream even though it took a heavy emotional toll on her well-being. The 24-year-old Biles was expected to dominate at the Tokyo Games but instead caused a sensation by pulling out of the opening event of the women's gymnastics competition after being plagued by an attack of the "twisties". "If you look at everything I have gone through the past seven years," Biles told New York Magazine in an interview released Monday. "I should have never made another Olympic te......

When it comes to Olympic gymnastics, perfection is a thing of the past. There was a time when a gymnast’s best score could be a 10.0, although the number was viewed as unattainable — especially on the Olympic stage. Who could achieve a perfect score under such pressure? The answer: Romania’s Nadia Comaneci at the Montreal Olympics in 1976. She not only earned the first perfect 10, but six more. The perfect score endures in collegiate competition, but lives no longer on the world stage thanks to the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG). And American superstar Simone Biles is paying the pri......