Gymstrada’s Level 10 team is looking forward to regular gymnastics season
Performing individually but competing together, Camdyn Milisitz, Ella Denno, Chloe Bastiaans, Elena Granados, Julia Lee and Reagan Summerlin are the members of the Level 10 Gymstrada Gymnastics team. Led by coaches Nic and Amanda Tolley, the six girls have built a unified team in a sport they love while creating even stronger friendships.
Japan has its best Olympic medal haul: 27 gold, 58 overall
TOKYO (AP) — Despite the pandemic, the one-year delay and the soaring costs, the Japanese public may still find a sweet spot for the Tokyo Olympics, the way it did for the storied 1964 Games. Why? A historic haul of medals. Japan had its best Olympic production in every category: the most gold medals (27), […]
Russian rhythmic dynasty topples, Bulgaria gets the gold
TOKYO (AP) — The Russian rhythmic gymnastics juggernaut collapsed at the Tokyo Olympics, with dramatic back-to-back losses that sparked furious allegations of injustice in a sport famous for twinkling costumes, techno remixes and hoops looping through the air. Russia had won every gold medal in rhythmic gymnastics since 2000. But it’s total defeat this year […]
Mixed bag: Erratic Pandemic Olympics winds to a nuanced end
TOKYO (AP) — It began with a virus and a yearlong pause. It ends with a typhoon and, still, a virus. In between: just about everything. The Tokyo Olympics, christened with “2020” but held in mid-2021 after being interrupted for a year by the coronavirus, glided to their end Sunday night as an often surreal […]
In ROC disguise, Russia has plenty to celebrate at Olympics
TOKYO (AP) — Russia by any other name is just as successful at the Olympics. The rebranded team — known at the Tokyo Games as ROC, short for Russian Olympic Committee — easily beat its medal target by surpassing the haul of 56 from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. The team was assured of […]
Left out of Olympics, men’s rhythmic gymnasts loved in Japan
TOKYO (AP) — In the suburbs of Tokyo, Hiromi Matsumoto found herself falling in love with online videos of rhythmic gymnastics — a spectacular swirl of ballet and acrobatics, clubs soaring through the air, bodies contorting into superhuman bends. But it was not the rhythmic gymnastics currently being performed at the Olympic stadium just miles […]
Long dominated by Russia, rhythmic gymnastics rising in US
TOKYO (AP) — In the darkest days of the pandemic, Evita Griskenas was stuck practicing in her parents’ Illinois basement, occasionally breaking lightbulbs as she tossed clubs and hoops through the air and cartwheeled to catch them. A song she had never heard started playing. Griskenas, a rhythmic gymnast, doesn’t so much hear music as […]
Could this be the end of a golden era for Rosie MacLennan?
Maclennan was the 2013 and 2018 World Trampoline champion, 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion, and 2011 and 2015 Pan American Games champion in the individual trampoline event.
Chinese beat Biles, take gold and silver in balance beam
TOKYO (AP) — Two Chinese gymnasts stood on the top two spots of the Olympic podium Tuesday, collecting their country’s first medals in the women’s gymnastics competition in its final event. Guan Chenchen won the gold medal in the balance beam, edging out teammate Tang Xijing. They pushed American superstar Simone Biles into third place […]
Biles returns to competition with a bronze medal and a smile
TOKYO (AP) — Simone Biles returned to the competition at the Tokyo Olympics in style, and will leave with another medal. What color it is really isn’t the point. That she delivered a tense, heart-pounding routine on the balance beam and nailed it with a smile meant everything. Biles looked calm as she moved, turned […]