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.
With the world still in the grips of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of its Delta variant,in some respects these Olympics came at exactly the right time,albeit a year later than scheduled.
Biles spent several days out of the spotlight at the gym where she was able to overcome the disorientation she had experienced.
Simone Biles says she felt physically ill watching other gymnasts do the one thing that her body simply wouldn’t do.
She experienced every gymnast’s “worst nightmare” last week and dropped out of multiple events,fearing injury. Here’s what we can learn from Simone Biles’ decision to compete tonight.