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No. 1 Oklahoma gymnastics team wins “meet of the season”

No. 1 Oklahoma cemented its status as the country’s top team by defeating No. 2 LSU, No. 4 Utah, and No. 6 Cal in this weekend’s star-studded Sprouts Collegiate Quad. Oklahoma has been the most dominant team in college gymnastics with six national titles in the last decade, and after this weekend’s showing, they look poised to win another.

January 13, 2025

Cal wins season-opening meet, while Olympic gymnasts shine for their college teams

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The Olympics are long over, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get your gymnastics fix, or a glimpse of your favorite Team USA athletes. Jade Carey and Jordan Chiles competed for their respective college squads this weekend, but it was Cal that had a golden performance.

January 06, 2025

College gymnastics season is upon us, with meets beginning today

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We are totally flipping out because the NCAA gymnastics season officially starts today. There’s a whole lot of floor routines, gravity defying tricks, and balance beaming to come between now and the national championship in April.

January 03, 2025

The 2024 Olympic stars who will return to NCAA play this year

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From the streets of Paris to the quad

August 14, 2024

American gymnast Jordan Chiles may be stripped of bronze medal

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Six days after the competition, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced it intends to strip American gymnast Jordan Chiles of her floor exercise bronze medal, but the fight isn’t over just yet.

August 12, 2024

Simone Biles and Athleta team up for post-Olympic gymnastics tour

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Everyone loves Team USA’s women’s gymnastics squad — just ask the 12.7M who watched them win gold last week. And to capitalize on this Olympic hype, prominent Simone Biles sponsor Athleta is putting on a sophomore edition of its U.S. gymnastics tour.

August 07, 2024

Simone Biles clinches Paris Olympics all-around title

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The one and only Simone Biles landed back on top of the Olympic all-around podium yesterday, winning her sixth gold medal following a tight competition against Brazil’s Rebeca Andrade (silver) and her Team USA compatriot, Sunisa Lee (bronze). With countless stars in attendance and numerous records broken, let’s look at the flippin’ epic final by the numbers before the individual events begin tomorrow.

August 01, 2024

Sports News

U.S. women’s gymnastics wins gold at Paris Olympics team final

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July 30, 2024

Three years after devastation at the Tokyo Olympics, U.S. women’s gymnastics completed their “Redemption Tour” yesterday, winning gold in the team final in front of a star-studded crowd. Found out, indeed.

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The GIST of It Podcast

Ep #456

Finally — FIFA funds study investigating ACL injuries in women’s soccer

May 01, 2025

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Finally — FIFA funds study investigating ACL injuries in women’s soccer

The ACL injury epidemic isn’t going away.

But as of Tuesday, FIFA is taking major strides to address this career-altering injury in the women’s game. Today’s episode of The GIST of It breaks down the new FIFA-funded study investigating the link between ACL injuries and a player’s menstrual cycle, with co-hosts Ellen Hyslop and Steph Rotz highlighting the importance of gender-specific research like this across all women’s sports. Time to make progress.