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"Gymnastics teaches you so much about controlling every part of your body."
"More than doubling the age of most of her competitors, a 46-year-old gymnast representing Uzbekistan took her final bow at the Olympics in Tokyo this summer."
"Gymnastics is pretty much street workout but on steroids and very strict, including strength, technique, and isometric based training."
"Gymnastics is the most humbling sport because you literally have to fall on your face, break ribs, or whatever before you succeed."
"It has never happened before that two Olympic all-around champions have competed together at the national championships."
"Gymnasts are probably the most underrated athletes in terms of strength, coordination, skill."
"Elite level gymnasts have an absolutely incredible work capacity... That work capacity gives gymnasts an unbelievably wide base of training to build upon."
"Former gymnasts should excel at something like this. Definitely Pat Vellner and Kari Pearce are definitely the two that come to mind for me."
"Essential for moves like the handstand, the plant, and inevitably the full bridge."
"Hollow body rocks are a movement borrowed from gymnastics."
"It definitely is, she doesn't need the experience and she's proving that she has the difficulty and she has the execution which makes it a double whammy."
"The road to Rio continues as three-time world all around champion Simone Biles leads Team USA at the Pacific Rim gymnastics championships."
"I can make a mistake and come out on top in the U.S.; he cannot do that on the world stage." - Tim Daggett
"A lot of people write this kid off, but that was tremendous, virtually error-free gymnastics." - Tim Daggett
"Everybody writes this young man off, but that is a very big mistake." - Tim Daggett
"You can always count on him. Yeah, it might not be the most beautiful, it might not be the most difficult." - Tim Daggett
"Becoming the first and youngest gymnast to score a perfect 10."
"A score that at the time was considered unachievable."
"Prior to Comaneci's performance at the 1976 Olympics, no one had ever received a perfect 10 before."
"Comaneci's outstanding and unprecedented performance was played and replayed on TV, making her a worldwide star."
"She is not just the greatest gymnast that's ever lived in my opinion but I believe I said this leading up to Rio that she was the most dominant female athlete any sport in the world"
"Simone Biles has defined greatness in gymnastics for a decade, leading the way for Team USA on the competition floor and off."
"Simone Biles is doing the best gymnastics in the world."
"She's inspiring to many people, too, and obviously this comeback now also inspirational."
"She made history here that is officially now called the Biles."
"Simone's well on her way to 21st world championship medal today."
"Is there anything in sports that makes you shake your head moment after moment like Simone Biles does? Not for me, absolutely not for me."
"That was as good as we have seen her do in a long long time." - Tim Daggett
"Undoubtedly she could be a member of both the pan am and the world championship team." - Nastia Liukin
"She is such a cheerleader and she just said I can't and I won't turn it off you know, she says there are a lot of gymnasts that have come before that are very stoic that's just not me and it won't work."
"She was the first person to do that and the skill is now forever known as the 'Dowell'."
"It's just like a fun family show that younger gymnasts should watch is a picture of perseverance and hard work."
"There's something special about twins in gymnastics."
"As a gymnast I focus on competing against myself, that's one of her mottos."
"I think she was stationary for a long enough period showed good control."
"I think she's got it there you go a definitive statement from our Olympic champ Nastia Liukin I like it."
"What Olympic gymnast does six flips with two twists and slips half an inch when he lands, me freaking jackass can't stick a landing."
"Every single decision I made for probably a solid six years revolved around gymnastics."
"It's like gymnastics with heavy implements added into it. Total athleticism and power and strength and coordination and balance and mental toughness. It's everything."
"Here comes real power, here comes real change."
"The only human being to have pulled off a Salto backward stretch with quadruple twist."
"It's just a land on the edge of the springboard and press up."
"We're channeling our inner Simone Biles and we're hoping to stick the landing."
"It goes to show you don't always need to do a ton of crazy flips to have an awesome finish here."
"I do gymnastics, I've basically done gymnastics my entire life."
"Every gymnast has got guts with the way they twist and contort their bodies in the air. I believe every single one of them deserves a gold medal."
"Photographic reflexes... It's not just that you can copy someone throwing a punch, it's that you can copy someone doing like an entire Olympic gymnastic routine flawlessly."
"Really, I don't know if I've ever seen her do a better bar routine without any form deductions."
"Simone Biles is the greatest gymnast the world has ever seen."
"History was really made, Peter Korman became the first American to win any medal in men's individual gymnastics since the 1932 Olympic Games."
"Before the Olympics, I doubt gymnastics was what it is now. I'd imagine it was probably closer to parkour at least in terms of innovation and whatnot."
"I love gymnastics, yeah. Also sports, it's like teamwork, she gets to socialize, she's got made lots of friends there."
"I'm really good at gymnastics, so prepare yourself."
"Fantastic Gymnastics escape room: you must land the gymnast on his feet inside The Landing Pad. Once that can't be that hard."
"German Olympic gymnists fight against sexualization of women by wearing unitards for the first time."
"You gymnasts have such a finite window to go to the Olympics."
"If I had this warehouse, I'd turn it into a giant gymnasium where I could just do gymnastics all day."
"I think the fact that I was a gymnast before helps me get the role. Audrey was the original yellow ranger in the beginning."
"Gymnastics, especially even just doing that like pommel, trying to do some twist and that... it's just interesting, it's fun."
"You can learn a handstand or a backflip, trust me, go to a gymnastics club."
"...if you're snatching that... you're winning gymnastics workouts... to give yourself even a chance to be there."
"So far, everyone on the team on LSU vault has had a season high or even a career high."
"She does all of those difficult skills and does them in a row. It is a testament to her athleticism and how talented she is as a gymnast."
"Hazy girl is doing her very first day of gymnastics."
"On balance beam, the margin for error is so small."
"Former level eight gymnast Bailey Rail showing what it takes to succeed in this test."
"When we train gymnastics, think quality over quantity. Quantity will come, but quality first."
"determined to prove him wrong, he used dance and gymnastics as a method of therapy."
"Every gymnast is trying to finesse that landing and salute the judge on their way off the floor."
"Her gymnastics looks so effortless."
"I mean, there's no such thing as automatic in college gymnastics but Suni Lee is about as close as you can get."
"Not the best bar routine we've seen from Arkansas, but they're adapting well."
"She has got a huge Tkachev though."
"They kept fighting, kept battling, and they did some great gymnastics down the stretch."
"Sarah Finnegan was superb absolutely nails every single landing."
"...ranked number two in the nation on balance beam they can stay very calm very cool they do really nice Beam work."
"11 times she scored perfect tens on floor in her amazing career."
"She was perfect in the 2021 Gators' link to pink, becoming the sixth Florida gymnast with the balance beam 10.0."
"Raina Worley she has been something special this is her final routine as a Collegiate gymnast and she will be missed."
"The choreography really is superior to so many routines we see in college gymnastics."
"Simone Biles landed the first ever Yurchenko double pike... She's still the goat, man."
"This gymnast's coach was the first to realize that her incredible jump didn't go according to plan and was prepared to do anything to help."
"There was a coach in the US gymnastics coach who was caught on one of the girls' cameras, and he was pushing their nose between their legs down to the floor, breaking their hip joints basically to create more mobility."
"Is there a better balance between external loading and only bodyweight training that might help gymnasts build more resilience?"
"I felt like a superwoman when I went into gymnastics gym and I loved being able to feel that."
"Simone Biles is like the Michael Jordan of gymnastics."
"She had the twisties, a term in gymnastics used to describe a form of mental block."
"Oh I wish I'd love to but no I can't, you do any kind of gymnastic move, um I am a dancer as a dancer so I can show you my videos."
"...gymnastics is one of the wildest sports..."
"I love the fact that we could potentially see three Olympic all-around gold medalists compete together."
"I love watching the gymnastics though."
"Simone biles just incredible consistency, great combinations."
"Here's that dismount, so you really are looking for your hips being completely stretched and open all the way around, just like she did there, that was gorgeous."
"A huge score for Madison Kocian on the uneven bars."
"To be able to see somebody like Simone Biles... it's not only a feeling but it's the numbers, the advantage built in the difficulty."
"She's a better gymnast today with the extra year."
"What a great way to end it, every one of the gymnasts came running up, was tremendous."
"Did you see that? Cartwheels are my favorite."
"Just the third on vault and already a 10 to really jump start the day."
"Oklahoma really expanding on their margin of this final rotation. Yeah, the Sooners didn't see a score below a 9.9. Huge score from Reagan Smith, 9.975, and then 9.9 fives back to back from Jordan Bowers and Faith Torres. What a great night for the Sooners."
"And Oklahoma just tremendous, living up to this number one label. What a robust finish to what has been a tremendous regular season here."
"This was their best floor rotation so far this year, and it's a great thing to know, especially for that team. Really builds their confidence heading into the postseason."
"And what a season in which they also set a School record for an overall team score back in late February. They finished with a flourish here on senior day at the Lloyd Noble Center."
"Michelle so you talk about growing up in gymnastics and that world, can you both kind of tell if your story?"
"Just a little shaky on every single skill."
"Pushing the boundaries of gymnastics."
"Her difficulty score is so incredibly high."
"She really is and she has known that her coach Laurent Landi says that we can't look at the rest of the world."
"Very few gymnasts take risks like this, does it easily and very well."
"Wow drills the landing, what a great routine."
"She's a beam queen when you have all of these elements in one routine."
"No score under 9.9 for her on floor this year."
"Great work on floor exercise by Kennedy Hambrick."
"She was very missed, I know they competed for her. It is not easy to come back after last year and the heartbreak of missing, but watch this side somersault really difficult to keep your center of gravity over the beam as you're flipping and turning sideways."
"Jade Carey, unbelievable performance, was eighth in the all-around and then on the final day of the Olympic gymnastics competition got gold on the floor exercise."
"This is the most perfect routine I've ever seen Jordan do on balance beam."
"...if the US has any vulnerabilities, it's in terms of start value on this event."
"There's only one way to go for Suni Lee and that is to go for perfection."
"Two great starts on the vault for Ball State."
"She's a standout on the bars but she's a standout everywhere."
"Absolutely gorgeous routine for Peyton Murphy as she rounds out this event."
"Heca Andrade is the world champion on vault for a second time and her second title in three years."
"What a day of gymnastics and we're not done."
"Opens with a triple series here, lots of bonus points for connecting these skills."
"We just saw the most difficult level in tumbling."
"What a rotation for Florida on floor exercise."
"Florida outstanding in this rotation on floor. Kennedy Baker does her part."
"Beautiful body position in the air just opening up at the exact perfect time to nail that vault."
"That's exactly how you want to compete, that vault's textbook."
"Every routine that she does is above a 9.9."
"A14 is a minute in 30 seconds of non-stop dance tumbling stuck landings hopefully stop landing double pike."
"Simone Biles is even with the fall, she's on track to win her sixth all-around title."
"Just beautiful gymnastics. That's great gymnastics."
"Winning the all-around and competing on bars for the first time since 2016."
"A tremendous routine with gorgeous form."
"A gymnast who can strive for a 10."
"Everything Trinity Thomas does is perfect."
"Every tenth counts. A huge double back, big pop, foot backwards, which will be a deduction, but you know what? That is some big gymnastics and I love seeing those hard dismounts coming off the game."
"Beautiful front handspring double twist."
"Nice finish, great finish for Arizona State with that Hannah Scharf routine."
"Looking for a big one here, can they get a stuck landing and maybe a 99?"
"When you get momentum in gymnastics...there really is momentum between routines right, absolutely."
"Alan's amazing gymnastics background made him look so badass as Ace Frehley."
"He showcased a balance of power and technique which gave him a score that is high enough to warrant an early celebration from the crowd and his team."
"And just like that, Carlo Yulo won the first-ever gold medal for the Philippines in artistic world's gymnastics."
"Even if you don't follow gymnastics, I think most people still know who Simone Biles is."
"She loved the outdoors and was passionate about gymnastics."
"Kate's diligent practice of reverse backflips on the horizontal bar eventually paid off."
"The US gymnast who became the individual all-around world champion for the fifth time in 2019 is Simone."
"I wanted to be a gold medalist; I wanted to be a gymnast."
"The actual idea of training in gymnastic the horse is what the school still has to do to keep this way of riding alive."
"Big congratulations to Joe Fraser and Onine Champong, our senior all-around British Champions."
"Jake Jarman, where do I start with him? What an incredible tumbler."
"We have Courtney, he's known for his rings, so great to see him put on a solid all-around performance and take the bronze."
"I failed so much in gymnastics, and I think in real life as well, you're going to fail, you're going to come across adversity."
"Just beautiful work from Becky there on the bars."
"What a comeback this has been for Joe Fraser."
"Such a popular gymnast here among the British fans and a truly deserving individual."
"You just drop right into that stuck landing."
"Every athlete goes through the pain of waking up and not wanting to do it sometimes, but for me, I truly do love gymnastics."
"Don't miss the excitement as US gymnasts continue down the road to Paris 2024."
"That was a fantastic achievement that we made for Team USA, not just the world team but everyone on the national team and in USA Gymnastics."
"Let's learn how to do some gymnastics, come on!"
"This is a place where you can practice your gymnastics moves and climb and stretch and jump."
"I coach preschool gymnastics here."
"It's really fun to be upside down like a monkey."
"So we did some cartwheels, some handstands, some jumping."
"It's really important that you have really good balance when you're a gymnast."
"We decided to enroll her in gymnastics."
"She looks so freaking cute in her leotard."
"I'm really excited to actually see her in gymnastics and doing something."
"Let's hope for the best and hopefully she does build up the courage to go all the way in."
"She's following her instructor really, really good."
"She is doing amazing, my baby girl."
"The only thing I care about is being the greatest gymnast in the world!"
"Well, welcome into the warm-up room of the arena Vina Usmanova, palace of gymnastics named after Russia's most famous rhythmic gymnastic coach."
"Ah, much better. Made the adjustment and caught that bar perfectly."
"That's the one, beautiful, she had to step."
"Gymnastics was my jam because I did it for, God, seven years."
"I remember sitting and watching just ESPN when they had the gymnastics going, and I would just sit in front of the TV and not move."
"Body awareness and positional strength lay the foundations for a lot of the gymnastic work we have to do."
"Being able to talk while you're upside down is a great sign that you're ready to move on."
"Congratulations to Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens."
"She might be the most dominant athlete the sport of gymnastics has ever seen in the all-around."
"Gymnastics scoring is basically made up of two parts: the execution score and the difficulty score."
"Gymnastics, it's a risk-reward sport."
"Another gold medal for Simone Biles, that's basically unbeatable."
"She just makes it look effortless."
"She's really become that figure in this sport, hasn't she? For every young gymnast."
"She should be the idol of young gymnasts all over the world."
"Every gymnast wants to win the gold medal, but every gymnast also wants to get their name in the Holy Grail of gymnastics, the code of points."
"Three straight world all-around titles for Simone Biles."
"Well, that was absolutely fabulous."
"Love everything about that routine."
"She's wonderful, so expressive, fan favorite."
"We all thought we saw the greatest of all time in Rio, and we did at that point in time, but she is so much better now."
"She makes everything look so easy, and I'm telling you, the skills that she's doing, they're not easy by any means."
"She's taken it to a higher level, a much higher level."
"Wow, what a way to end her first worlds."
"Once again Simone into the history books."