Gymnastics has come a long way in the past 70 years. Early gold medal winners on the balance beam look entirely different from the modern sport. Even with more ...

I miss Svetlana Khorkina. I miss her shade-throwing and dagger glares and how she was like a foot taller than everyone she was competing against. I miss her screaming with the fury of a silent-screen ...

Brooklyn Moors didn’t need to say the words to know. The UCLA gymnast and coach Janelle McDonald had the same idea to address Moors’ balance beam struggles. For the majority of her two-decade ...

Of all the playing surfaces in sports, none is more unforgiving than the balance beam. It measures 10 centimeters wide — barely wider than a hockey puck — 5 meters long and stands 1.2 meters above the ...