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What Gymnastics Did To Jessica HowardWhen Jessica Howard entered the world of gymnastics in 1987, she was three years old and wore a pink leotard adorned with poodles. She would go on to become a three-time national champion and later serve on the board of USA Gymnastics. The experience would nearly kill her....

Spanish Rhythmic Gymnasts Competed In Bedazzled Concentration Camp-Style LeotardsAt a rhythmic gymnastics competition in Spain late last week, five gymnasts took to the mat in striped leotards reminiscent of concentration camp uniforms with yellow numbers (instead of stars) on their chests. Then they performed to music, a Spanish cover of the song “Beautiful That Way” from Rober...

Knots Happen: Equipment Malfunction At Rhythmic Gymnastics World ChampionshipsYou ever watch rhythmic gymnasts and wonder how the ribbons that they twirl while executing complex leaps, turns, and tosses doesn’t get constantly tied up in knots like your charger/laptop/game console wires do in that corner of your apartment that you never ever clean because then you’d have to de...

This Is What It Looks Like When A Coach Stops Pretending It's About Anything But Winning<em></em>

One of the first times we meet Irina Viner-Usmanova, the head of Russia’s dominant rhythmic gymnastics program, in the documentary Over The Limit, she’s berating gymnast Margarita Mamun after a competition. “You were rubbish today,” says Viner-Usmanova, who wears a Justin Timberlake–style straw fedo...

Everything You Never Needed To Know About Rhythmic Gymnastics

We love gymnastics. It gets the highest ratings of any summer event. Every four years we fall in love with a new "America's Sweetheart." They get the Wheaties box. The team goes down in history....