Tag: gymnastics

A twofer today. I hadn’t planned to do another gymnastics one right in a row, but then the second of these two seemed to go so well with my Pro-Failure post on Monday.

But first:  Another Katelyn Ohashi floor routine, this one to Michael Jackson:

And if you haven’t heard her story about going through body-shaming and injury, only to find her way back to joy and love in her sport, check out the video below – warning, it might bring (good) tears to your eyes. I thought it would go well with Fowler’s story of rediscovering her own joy in creating from yesterday.

She notes that gymnastics can be brutal – Simone Biles (whom she competed against and even defeated) has also experienced the brutality of this sport and had to step away. But they are both the 🐐❤️

 Simone Biles with her qualifying floor routine at the world championship: 

Below are all her qualifying rounds for the real fans – including her being the first women to land Yurchenko double pike on the vault (last event), now named the Biles II :

A little gymnast floor routine fun.