What had once been a sport associated largely with white girls is increasingly dominated by women of color. And more elite gymnasts are competing in the NCAA while they go for the gold.
Dawes herself was the rare gymnast to compete in three Olympic Games: 1992, 1996 and 2000. And she suspects part of the answer to why there are older gymnasts today is better equipment and coaching that focuses less on repetition.
"The skills that they're doing today are unreal," says Dawes."Seeing a female athlete do a Yurchenko double pike — I would have never, ever imagined it, in a thousand years," she says of the vault that Biles performed at the championships — a maneuver so difficult that she isAnd what's more, Dawes says, Biles"doesn't look like she's slowing down."
Okino"absolutely loves" that today's elite gymnasts can accept some endorsement deals and still compete in college gymnastics."It would have been such a gift to have that," she says. Okino took the Reebok contract, and said goodbye to college gymnastics and the scholarship that would go with it."I always think about if I went to Stanford," she says, explaining that in 1994, she signed to compete with the university but later backed out."Back then, there were not NIL deals, so I felt as if I had to choose" between staying with her coach and training for another Olympics, or going off to college.
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