Have you ever heard of Kayla Williams before? I mean, from something or someone other than me. No? Well, don’t feel badly. I didn’t know about her until two months ago. And five months ago, by gymnastics standards, she didn’t even exist.
In elite American gymnastics, star gymnasts are typically identified very early. They either train [...]

Ok, so now we’re actually getting down to stuff!
This is the point where I start to get bogged down in the details and want to skip the boring stuff (ha) for the more interesting write-ups later on. So if you’ll forgive me (and I’m sure you will), I’ll move through this as quickly as possible.
First [...]

To have a competition, you have to have competitors. Obvious, right?
What’s unique about the first Worlds after the Olympics is that not only do you have athletes from the previous quad returning for another shot at the Olympics, but you also have a lot of unknowns who are competing at their first big competition and [...]

Welcome to part 1 of my 2009 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships recap! (phew, what a mouthful). I started out writing this intending to make it into two parts, but as I wrote and wrote and wrote, I realized I had just way too much information for one blog post. So I’ll be splitting it up [...]