Category: magazines

Simone Biles one of Glamour’s Women of the Year

… Biles, who had gone into the Games as the most decorated U.S. gymnast in history and the heavy favorite in Rio, nailed that event and went on to win five medals, with one impossibly difficult, near-flawless performance after another. Over those few days in August, more than 30 million Americans tuned in to watch her compete, while millions more replayed her routines on YouTube …

But it wasn’t all stratospheric rise. After she earned a spot on the senior national team in 2013, her signature confidence began to crumble. At one competition that summer, she made so many mistakes during her first few routines—and was so devastated—that she didn’t even try to do her vault. At the urging of her parents, Biles sought the help of a sports psychologist. “She was competing against these girls who were her heroes, her idols,” her mom explains. “And it was hard for her to adjust to that. Simone didn’t think she was good enough to compete with them. I knew she was quite capable. But she needed to believe it.”

Therapy taught her to trust her talent and enjoy the experience. …

Simone Biles on How She Went From Foster Care to Olympic Gold

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Read an excerpt from her new book – Courage to Soar.

related – Glamour’s Women of the Year 2016: Gwen Stefani, Simone Biles, Ashley Graham, and More Honorees

Tomás González – coverboy

Tomás González is the first Chilean gymnast to medal at World Cup events and the first to qualify for an Olympic Games.

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Inside Gymnastics – Olympic issue

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Inside Gymnastics 2016 Olympics issue

Our 2016 Commemorative Olympic Issue features all of the magic from Rio including the top storylines, stars and celebrations. …

$9.95

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Shawn Johnson – Nashville magazine

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Greatest American Olympians 2016

Like this Sports Illustrated cover on Facebook.

via AdWeek – Every One of the ‘Final Five’ Gymnasts Absolutely Crushed the Internet Last Week

TIME Magazine’s Olympic issue – Simone

… Just 4 ft. 8 in.–the shortest member of the 555-person U.S. delegation in Rio–Biles pulls off moves too challenging for even her elite rivals, soaring with a preternatural comfort in the air.

She’s “in a caliber with nobody else in the world, really,” says Nastia Liukin, the 2008 Olympic all-around gold medalist, who will cover the Games for NBC. “Nobody is even close to her.” …

Simone Biles Is Taking Her Sport to New Heights

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Here’s an older Time cover with Gabby.

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Thanks Dave.

Simone on Sports Illustrated

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The New Yorker – Simone Biles

It’s the Olympic year. All sorts of people suddenly get interested in Gymnastics.

Reeves Wiedeman published a long, rambling but very well researched article in the New Yorker.

… “She’s great eighty-five per cent of the time,” Boorman told me. “She is also fifteen per cent teen-age girl.” …

A FULL REVOLUTION

In the run-up to the Olympics, Simone Biles is transforming gymnastics.

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