In the not-too-distant past, gymnastics was a sport whose participants were overwhelmingly White. In the past decade or two, people of color have some to be among the very top-performing elite ...

After documenting near-abusive training practices of elite gymnastics in her 1995 book, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes, sports journalist and author Joan Ryan found herself unable to watch the sport.

She said an official with USA Gymnastics mentioned an up-and-coming gymnast, commenting that she had “the international look” – which for years has been a notorious code word for skinny.

5 gymnastics moves named after Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles 03:30. Simone Biles has the chance to make history at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris — but the "GOAT of gymnastics" has already ...

But gymnastics programs at those schools previously did not exist. That’s why Derrin Moore, founder of Brown Girls Do Gymnastics, chose to make the nonprofit’s H.B.C.U. campaign a central part ...