When U.S. Olympic gymnast Jordan Chiles was 17, one of her former coaches called her “double head,” because, as she recalled, her “hair was too big.” Someone also questioned whether she was her mother ...

The spandex-clad teacher pulled me aside, out of earshot from the other parents at the gymnastics class. “We’d like to put your daughter in a developmental class,” she told me. Also Read: I Arrived At ...

Olympian Jordan Chiles started bawling the first time she set foot in a gymnastics center. When she was 6 years old, her parents signed her up for gymnastics so she could release her boundless energy.

Gymnastics is a popular sport at the Olympics. After seeing the Gymnastics portion of the 2024 Paris Olympics, many are inspired. Pommel horse, a move used by men in the gymnastics portion of the ...

Paris — As a freshman in high school, U.S. gymnast Paul Juda attended a training camp for the junior national team where the coaches instructed the athletes to look around. “There will be an Olympian ...

At the gymnastics world championships in Antwerp, Belgium, in October, Fred Richard found himself in an unfamiliar position—face down on the mat. Entering the last event in the all-around competition, ...