On top of competitive gymnastics, sophomore Hailey Dao excels in track, pole vaulting, and flag football. This rigorous ...
The second week of the Paris Olympics began with another action-packed day as a number of sport’s biggest names made an appearance on Monday. On the track, Sweden's pole vaulter Armand Duplantis won ...
You can learn a lot about a subculture by the slang it develops. Gymnastics has a lot of slang around fear: the twisties, headcasing, mental block, bailing, balking. Gymnastics is obviously physically ...
During my junior year, I started writing a column in the sports section about gymnastics. Twenty-five editions later, this column has become one of my favorite things I have written for our paper. Now ...
TACOMA — As Ava Enriquez sprinted towards her attempt at 12 feet in the 3A Girls Pole Vault at Mount Tahoma High School on Saturday, the only thought running through her mind was to just clear the bar ...
Simone Biles won her third Olympic gold medal of the Paris Games when she won the gymnastics vault final in style on Saturday. Biles, 27, nailed her eponymous ‘Biles II’ vault which helped her to an ...
When Dave Gable, a former state-champion pole vaulter with Beaverton who has coached pole vaulters at Crescent Valley High for 35 years, was walking down toward the track for practice, he noticed that ...