Dvora Meyers
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Title IX Gave Women More Chances To Coach In College. But It Gave Even More Opportunities To Men.
The NCAA is still feeling this unintended consequence of the legislation. → Read More
College Gymnastics Isn’t Exempt From The Sport’s Larger Problems
We need to be wary of how we contextualize the joyous picture of this sport. → Read More
Russia’s Figure Skating Ban Will Reverberate For Years To Come
One peculiarity of the figure skating competition calendar is that during an Olympic year, the world championships are contested about a month after the Games. … → Read More
Russian Doping Isn’t The Only Problem In Figure Skating
Kamila Valieva's positive test result points to abuse within the sport. → Read More
In A Sports World Segregated By Gender, Figure Skating Has Often Blurred Those Lines
From Madge Syers to Timothy LeDuc, the sport has wrestled with its self-imposed separations. → Read More
Jason Brown May Not Land A Quad Jump In Beijing. His Fans Don’t Need Him To.
“The quad will come.” That’s what choreographer and then-NBC figure skating analyst Sandra Bezic said as Jason Brown stepped off the ice at the 2014 U.S. nation… → Read More
The Quad Jump Revolution Has Transformed Women’s Figure Skating. How Far Will It Go?
Yet again, the sport is grappling with how to propel itself while retaining the qualities that make it timeless. → Read More
Gymnasts Say They Need Apparatus Warmups Back. That Should Be Enough.
Mistakes during the vault final don't matter as much as the needs of the athletes. → Read More
The Cold War Used To Define Gymnastics. Not Anymore.
Current gymnasts have no use for the rhetoric and narrative of the past. → Read More
Time For The End Of The Teen Gymnast
Girls in gymnastics start very young and specialize very early, but that wasn’t always the case. → Read More
How To Build The Best Gymnastics Team
Along with Simone Biles, which athletes give the U.S. the biggest chance to win the most Olympic medals? → Read More
The Endgame of the Olympics
What if the Olympic Games never come back? → Read More
Could Simone Biles really do the unthinkable and retire before Tokyo 2021?
The gymnastics superstar has refused to commit to appearing at the next Olympics. Team USA would still be strong even without her though → Read More
Split-site Olympics and robot umpires: our bold sports predictions for 2030
On the heels of a decade of major change in sports, Guardian US contributors make their bold predictions for the next 10 years → Read More
Simone Biles 2.0: Somehow, someway, there's nowhere to go but up
It’s not always so simple for female athletes to openly acknowledge just how great they are, but the superlative American is finally doing so with a newfound outspokenness → Read More
Ryoyu Kobayashi Becomes First Non-European Man To Win Overall World Cup Ski Jump Title
This weekend, Japanese ski jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi broke Europe’s decades-long domination of the ski jump World Cup by becoming the first non-European man to win the overall title. → Read More
Residents Face Sky-Rocketing Rents As NFL Takes Over Inglewood
Earlier this week, lawmakers in Inglewood, California pushed through a rent stabilization ordinance that seeks to protect residents who are struggling to stay in their homes due to surging rents in the area. One of the main reasons that rents have skyrocketed is due the construction of a $2.6 billion stadium and entertainment complex where both the Raiders and Chargers are set to play. → Read More
This Furry With Abs Is The Creepiest Mascot In Sports
Sports team mascots are creepy as a general rule. It comes with the territory to a certain extent, but I can’t really think of one that I don’t find terrifying or at least moderately disquieting. It’s probably something to do with the disproportionate ratio of head-size to body. But at least most of them don’t make you feel bad about not going to the gym. → Read More
If The Olympics Want Breaking To Succeed, They Have To Get The Music Right
Last month, Paris 2024 organizers voted to include breaking in the 2024 Summer Games. If the IOC votes next year to make it official, breaking will be in the program for 2024 Olympics. → Read More
The Obsession With Caster Semenya's Body Was Racist From The Very Beginning
A week before the 2012 Olympics, a group of researchers and academics gathered for the International Convention on Science, Education, and Medicine in Sport in Glasgow, just over 400 miles north of London, where the Games were being held. One of those athletes was South African runner Caster Semenya, who burst onto the scene in 2009 to win the women’s 800 meters in scorching time. Almost… → Read More