A new era for gymnastics: Simone Biles' return to competition is one more piece of evidence that the sport's old culture – which often infantilized athletes – is fading | Analysis
Superstar gymnast Simone Biles returns to competition at the US Classic this weekend for the first time since an attack of “the twisties” forced her to drop out of several events at the Tokyo Olympics in July 2021. She kept her plans quiet until a few weeks ago and says she’s now able to twist fine. Scores from an untelevised national training camp indicate she could be back to her record-shattering best – able to complete the Yurchenko double-pike vault, which no other woman has ever done.
1986 national champion Jennifer Sey has described living on a diet of apples and lettuce – and a coach that screamed, “I don’t coach fat gymnasts!” She told CNN she competed on a broken ankle for two years. Mattie Larson, 2010 world silver medalist, told me she once competed having eaten only two triangles of a Toblerone that day. “I was so tired. I always felt like I was going to pass out at the end of practice,” Larson said.
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