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Two tied for lead at US womenâs gymnastics championships
1+ hour, 32+ min ago (223+ words) PHOENIX — Skye Blakely’s return to the all-around competition at the elite level got off to a fabulous start. The 21-year-old posted a total of 55.600 to tie Claire Pease atop the leaderboard during the opening night of the US women’s gymnastics…...
Halfway through another Olympic cycle, how is US gymnast Frederick Richard preparing for the 2028 Los Angeles Games?
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (705+ words) Frederick Richard is in the middle. A little more than 700 days ago, the Stoughton native competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and won a team bronze medal for the United States. In a little more than 700 days, he hopes…...
In a world turned upside down, why not be an acrobat?
1+ week, 6+ day ago (643+ words) Heather Beasley Doyle is a journalist, writer, and editor based in Arlington. Inside the darkened Cirque Phénix tent in January, my husband and I sat in the audience watching our son and nine other students from the École nationale de…...
The love story of Gabrielle and Gabriel began with some game playing
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (966+ words) Read more from The Big Day. Gabrielle Mbeki and Gabriel Bryant’s first date was all about playing games. There was Connect 4, mancala, and draw dominoes, a format popular in the Caribbean, they remember. (Gabby’s family is Jamaican.) “She kicked my…...
Stoughton’s Frederick Richard wins second straight all-around crown at NCAA men’s gymnastics championship
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (641+ words) Stoughton’s Frederick Richard won his second straight all-around individual crown for Michigan Saturday night in Champaign, Ill., and Cooper Kim and Jun Iwai each won individual titles to lead Stanford to its sixth NCAA men’s gymnastics championship since 2019. Richard, the…...
Asher Hong rolls to US all-around gymnastics title ahead of Stoughton’s Frederick Richard
11+ mon, 4+ week ago (372+ words) NEW ORLEANS — Asher Hong cruised to his second national title in men’s gymnastics on Saturday, pulling away from the field for an easy victory at the US Championships. The 21-year-old Hong, part of the five-man team that earned bronze at…...
Olympian Hezly Rivera edges Leanne Wong for victory at the US gymnastics championships
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (404+ words) NEW ORLEANS — Hezly Rivera met the moment. The 17-year-old Olympic gold medalist pulled away for a victory at the US gymnastics championships on Sunday, looking more than ready to be the standard-bearer for the women’s program in the early stages…...
The Mass. gymnast taking on his sport’s outdated traditions
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (652+ words) Last week at the US gymnastics championships, Stoughton native Frederick Richard nearly lost his silver medal finish. It wasn’t because of his performance. It was because of the shorts he decided to wear above his compression leggings, which ran afoul…...
Gymnast Frederick Richard’s latest challenge is attempting to change his sport’s strict dress code
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (591+ words) The first time Frederick Richard pulled off a gymnastics move, he was probably wearing kiddie pajamas, prone, as his parents delight in telling, to flipping his way out of the crib in their Stoughton home. But across the years in…...
Olympian Jordan Chiles says goodbye to her UCLA gym era, welcomes future possibilities
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (356+ words) Chiles, who earned her first perfect 10 on vault in January, started gymnastics at the age of six. She says she recognized her talent immediately, but it wasn’t until she was 13 that she started envisioning a career in the sport and…...