Australian gymnast Kate McDonald has celebrated her 22nd birthday with a shock gold medal in the balance beam,relegating her star teammate Georgia Godwin to second.
The brightest Australian gymnastics star in a generation says she feels a duty to lead the way for younger athletes.
Georgia Godwin became the first Australian to win the individual all-round competition since Lauren Mitchell in Delhi 12 years ago.
Four weeks ago Georgia Godwin was resigned to missing the Commonwealth Games with injury. Now she’s setting the floor alight.
Gold medallist Simone Biles is among dozens of assault victims seeking damages from the FBI for failing to stop sports doctor Larry Nassar.
Athletes have called for Sports Integrity Australia to be given the powers to sanction sporting bodies and impose better practices after the report into WA’s gymnastics program was released.
A soon-to-be-published report into women’s gymnastics at the WA Institute of Sport paints a bleak picture of dysfunction,abuse and trauma.
There are Z stickers on the backs of cars,on T-shirts and billboards,and one Russian gymnast wore it on his uniform while competing against a Ukrainian.
The International Gymnastic Federation has banned the powerhouse gymnastic teams over “the massive escalation of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine”.
The tribunal finding against Peggy Liddick directly links the culture problems in Australian gymnastics to its long-serving national coach.
They were supposed to compete in the world cheerleading championships in Orlando Florida in front of a pumping crowd,but these Melbourne women did it in a buzz-free gym and still came out on top.