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Brazilian gymnast Flávia Saraiva kisses her medal.

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Jordan Chiles of Team United States is seen prior to competing in the Artistic Gymnastics Women's Floor Exercise Final on day ten of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 05, 2024 in Paris, France.

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A Documentary About Simone Biles Might Save Jordan Chiles’s Bronze Medal

A picture taken in Lausanne on February 7, 2024, shows the entrance of the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

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The Jordan Chiles Bronze Medal Fiasco Is Even Dumber Than You Imagined

Bronze medalist Jordan Chiles of Team United States celebrates after the Artistic Gymnastics Women's Floor Exercise Final on day ten of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at the Bercy Arena on August 5, 2024 in Paris, France.

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Gymnastics And IOC Leadership Found A Way To Screw Over Everyone

Simone Biles of Team United States competes in the Artistic Gymnastics Women's Floor Exercise Final on day ten of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 05, 2024 in Paris, France. Her arms are up in the air, and she is smiling.

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Simone Biles’s Greatness Is About More Than Medals

Simone Biles holds up her gold medal in vault at the 2024 Olympics

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Simone Biles Gets Another Olympic Gold With Her Historic Vault

American gymnast Stephen Nedoroscik surrounded by press with cameras at the Olympics in Paris.

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Stephen Nedoroscik Pommeled That Horse

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In Paris, Simone Biles Made Everyone Stand Up And Take Notice

Team USA pose for a photo during the women's gymnastics at the Bercy Arena during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France on July 28, 2024.

Olympic Games Paris 2024, Day 2

Team USA Had To Find Its Steel In Order To Reclaim Its Gold

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PARIS, FRANCE: JULY 27: Stephen Nedoroscik of the United States prepares to perform his pommel horse routine during Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Qualification at the Bercy Arena during the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games on July 27th, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Stephen Nedoroscik Is The Bespectacled King Of The Pommel Horse

U.S. gymnast Simone Biles competes in the balance beam event during the Core Hydration Classic at XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut, on May 18, 2024.

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Simone Biles Somehow Looks Even Better

Mary Lou Retton signs a Wheaties box in 2003. By her side is her longtime coach, Bela Karolyi

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Mary Lou Retton’s Third Act Is Her Most All-American

Simone Biles of Team United States walks out ahead of the Women's Vault Final on Day Eight of the 2023 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships at Antwerp Sportpaleis on October 07, 2023 in Antwerp, Belgium.

The Reign Of Simone Biles Continues

Ten years after the London 2012 Olympics were based here at Stratford, is a landscape of nature that surrounds the original Olympic rings in The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, on 14th June 2022, in London, England. The former main Olympic venue area was controversially re-landscaped from an old industrial estate. Its promised legacy is a green space now known as The Elizabeth Park which remains a wildlife habitat and whose centrepieces are still the Velodrome and Aquatic Centre used by the public while the main Olympic stadium is home to West Ham Football Club. (

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Ex-Union Chief Donald Fehr Says Olympic And Paralympic Athletes Need Their Own Type Of Union

General view during the balance beam exercise at the women's artistic gymnastics individual competition on August 19, 2004 during the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games at the Olympic Sports Complex Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece.

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Al Fong, Valeri Liukin, And The Stubborn Culture Of The Tyrant Coach

Simone Biles competes in the floor exercise on day four of the 2023 U.S. Gymnastics Championships at SAP Center on August 27, 2023 in San Jose, California.

The Simone Biles Comeback Continues At Full Speed

Simone Biles smiling after she competes on the balance beam during the Core Hydration Classic at Now Arena on August 05, 2023 in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

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Simone Biles Is Using A Spotter For Her Vault, And That’s A Good Thing

Simone Biles celebrates with her coach Laurent Landi after competing on the vault at the Core Hydration Classic at Now Arena on August 05, 2023 in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

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Simone Biles Is Having Fun Again

Gymnast Simone Biles of Team United States flips through the air as performs her dismount during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Women's Gymnastics Balance Beam Final at Ariake Gymnastics Center on Tuesday, August 3, 2021

A Brief Investigation Into Whether Brady Quinn Broke The Simone Biles News

Trinity Thomas of Florida competes in the vault during the Division I Women's Gymnastics Championship held at Dickies Arena on April 15, 2023 in Fort Worth, Texas. Thomas is vaulting.

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Trinity Thomas Did It

Trinity Thomas of the Florida Gators competes in the balance beam during the Division I Womens Gymnastics Championship held at Dickies Arena on April 14, 2022 in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Trinity Thomas Is Inching Closer To History

A photo of a pair of hands atop the uneven bars. They are griping the bars, as gymnasts do,

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How Gymnastics Breaks A Gymnast

An image of Valeri Liukin. He is standing with his hands on his hips.

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What The Hell Is USAG Even Doing?

Kamila Valieva of Team ROC reacts after skating during the Women Single Skating Free Skating on day thirteen of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Capital Indoor Stadium on February 17, 2022 in Beijing, China. She is standing on center ice, looking very small, and all five Olympic rings on the ice are visible.

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The Banality Of Abuse In Women’s Sports

The offices of USA Gymnastics and the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee are seen on November 6, 2018 in Indianapolis, Indiana.