Simone Biles wants to get this out of the way first. She didn't return to gymnastics to appease anyone. Not her sponsors. Not her family. And not the organisation she represents. This "comeback" - a word the Olympic champion isn't really a fan of - is about curiosity and self-respect. To
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Dominick Cunningham hopes to keep momentum at world championships
Dominick Cunningham fought his way up from the fringes of the Great Britain gymnastics team to win an unexpected men's floor gold medal at the European Championships in Glasgow. Now the Birmingham 23-year-old is determined to continue his promising trajectory at his first World Championships in Doha, and make the rest
Max Whitlock: I take it as a compliment that people think I’ve failed this year
While Max Whitlock was labouring to a second consecutive disappointment at the European Championships in Glasgow, Simone Biles swept all before her on a spectacular and poignant return at the US Nationals. They could hardly have experienced a more contrasting year to date, but two of the sport's modern greats are
Ellie Downie ready for long-awaited return at world championships
Gymnastics great Nadia Comaneci looked on admiringly 18 months ago as the then 17-year-old Ellie Downie became the first British gymnast to claim a European all-around gold medal in Cluj. Downie's ascent was as emphatic as it had been unexpected, and ended in one of the sport's all-time greats backing her
Italy’s Giorgia Villa has the nerve to take all-around gold at Youth Olympic Games
Fifteen-year-old wins her nation’s first YOG title in the event after battling nerves Italian gymnast Giorgia Villa and her coach Marco Campodonico had their own competition going on: who was the most nervous. Just minutes before Villa was to perform her floor exercise, her last routine in a nail-biting all-around final competition,
Buenos Aires 2018: ‘My dream is not a dream any more,’ says Diogo Soares
Artistic gymnast Diogo Soares emerges as the surprise package as much-fancied Takeru Kitazono (JPN) delivers in the all-around final Brazil’s Diogo Soares won the bronze medal in the men’s artistic gymnastics all-around final and his success came as such a surprise that it took several media interviews for him to absorb
Briones bounces back to land vault gold at 2018 Youth Olympics
Olympic champion Simone Biles: ‘It was important to speak out and help any way I can’
Senegal picked as first African host to Youth Olympics in 2022
IOC president Thomas Bach with the Senegal delegation at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos AiresSenegal will host the fourth edition of the summer Youth Olympic Games in 2022 – the first time an Olympic event will be held in Africa. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) membership unanimously approved Dakar to
Max Whitlock sets sights on third world title in Qatar
Max Whitlock intends to take baby-steps back to the top of his sport as he aims to reverse a series of disappointing results at the World Gymnastics Championships later this month. Whitlock announced in September that his wife Leah is expecting their first child in February, by which time the 25-year-old