Simone Biles leads U.S. Championships despite somewhat off night
The competition isn't the judges. Or the rest of the field. Or even the sport she's dominated for the better part of a decade. Simone Biles conquered all of them long ago. What drives Biles is the voice in her head, the one that tells ...
Kenzo Shirai took silver in the floor exercise at the world championships on Friday. Russia's Artur Dalaloyan followed his victory in the men's individual all-around competition on Wednesday by taking floor gold at the Aspire Dome with 14.900 points. Shirai, who finished seventh in the individual ...
Mai Murakami finished second in the women's individual all-around competition at the World Gymnastics Championships on Thursday, earning Japan its first-ever silver medal in the category. Murakami accrued 55.798 points to place second behind reigning Olympic champion Simone Biles of the United States, who won ...
The newly appointed head of USA Gymnastics resigned just four days after being named to the job on Tuesday following stinging criticism of her appointment by Olympic stars Simone Biles and Alexandra Raisman. Former Republican politician Mary Bono, who had only been revealed as interim ...
Simone Biles tried to treat the 2016 Summer Olympics like just your average ordinary gymnastics meet. So what if the stage and the stakes were different? The floor was still the floor. The vault still the vault. The uneven bars still uneven. The balance beam ...
Dynamic Biles adds another gold medal with floor exercise triumph
Simone Biles starts each year by pulling out a notebook to write down her goals for the next 12 months. When 2016 dawned, for once she didn't get too specific. Make the Olympic team. That's it. Better to just leave things vague. Besides, who could have ...
Dominant U.S. women give Karolyi golden farewell; Japan finishes fourth
Martha Karolyi leaned forward, her hands clutching the railing in front of her seat. Knuckles white. Head tilted. Body tense. It didn't matter that the U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics team had already sewn up the team gold by the time three-time world champion Simone Biles ...
The nerves were there. Unmistakable. Unavoidable. Standing in the darkened tunnel before entering Rio Olympic Arena on Sunday night, the U.S. women's gymnastics team felt the pressure that comes not from outside expectations but those held within. Then the lights came on. And just like that, ...
Simone Biles is human. The proof came halfway through her beam routine at the World Gymnastics Championships Thursday night, when a front flip ended with Biles reaching forward and squeezing the piece of wood as hard as she could with both hands. Twenty minutes later, ...
