by admin | Jul 29, 2024 | Fitness, Life / Sports
Some elite athletes make history by winning medals or breaking records. Gymnasts can etch their names in the books by doing that, sure, but they also have another option: Create a new skill, land it successfully, and it just might officially carry your...
by admin | Jul 29, 2024 | Fitness, Life / Sports
By all accounts, the trick that won 14-year-old Coco Yoshizawa of Japan an Olympic gold medal in street skateboarding was an impressive one.It’s called the big spin flip frontside boardslide, and in it the skateboard rotates and flips both vertically and horizontally...
by admin | Jul 29, 2024 | Fitness, Life / Sports
As Serena Williams volleyed back and forth with Ajla Tomljanovic during her final tennis match in September 2022, 4.6 million viewers (an ESPN record for the sport) tuned in. And a bunch of them were watching from the Sports Bra in Portland, Oregon, which grew so...
by admin | Jul 29, 2024 | Fitness, Life / Sports
At the 2015 world championships in Kazan, Russia, Katie Ledecky started feeling a little weird after dinner one night—hot and lightheaded. When she returned to training, she’d have a day or two of feeling okay, then a couple with zero energy. Sometimes, as she...
by admin | Jul 28, 2024 | Fitness, Life / Sports
The women’s gymnastics qualifications on Sunday morning set the stage for some history-in-the-making for later in the week: After crushing their events on July 28, Simone Biles and Suni Lee are both slated to compete in the all-around finals on August 1.Biles...
by admin | Jul 27, 2024 | Fitness, Life / Sports
Zhiying Zeng was born in 1966 to a mom who coached table tennis. She picked up a paddle as soon as she could hold it, joined a junior elite team at a military sports school in Beijing at age 11, and turned pro at age 12.And like most other young athletes, she had...