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[lobaznyuk]

Kaylia Nemour (Algeria) wins the gold medal on bars at the 2025 Jakarta World Championships

[elenazamos]

while it's great to see Jade come second without her full difficulty back and for Skye Blakely to come first in bars and beam it's not great that that the top gymnasts of this quad are basically the same people as two Olympics ago

[gymnasticsfan94]

Which commentators do you like better

Tim, Al, & Nastia

John, Sam, & Laurie

Voting ended onJul 26

[viktoriakomova]

"I need a cultural analyst to tell me if that’s just a regular level of homosocial physical affection and language" Not a Brazilian lesbian but very good friends with one, and I asked them whether this could be interpreted as platonic or if this was clearly romantic/sexual for Brazilian standards, and her answer was literally "unless that person is her mom, that's romantic/sexual." And this is a person who is pretty touchy-feely and who routinely sleeps with her friends, so it's not like they're a prude for Brazilian standards...

HAPPY PRIDE THANKS FOR THE DEETS I LOVE LOVE LFGGGG 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[alexamorenoshairdye]

not to sound too cheesy but seeing openly gay gymnasts genuinely gives me so much hope. like even as a queer kid with relatively progressive parents, if you told the Ari who was still competing that a six time olympic medalist would be posting about her girlfriend, they would not have believed you. but it happened! and this isn’t even the first time in recent memory an olympic gymnast has come out. wow.

[cut-catches]

REBE LESBIAN CONFIRMED????? HAPPY PRIDE MONTH GYMBLR

[viktoriakomova]

We know that we are living through a period of USAG stagnation bc even with Simone presumably retired people’s way too early LA28 team predictions still are mostly gymnasts who have been around for 3 quads now

[cut-catches]

some of my thoughts on why the developmental program has stagnated

- we’re only over the recent couple years seeing the effect of covid on the junior program

- we’re also now seeing the effect of the Nassar scandal making parents rethink putting their children into gymnastics

- NCAA has become the goal rather than elite for more people because it offers better life balance while growing up, and offers a better chance at reward (much more college spots to go around than olympic spots). many talented levels 10s are choosing just to stay there than try for elite

- worsening cost of living crisis also means less people are putting their kids into gymnastics

[rebecaandrade]

this bitch is finally an olympian!!!

[tutyayilmazz]

this bitch is now retired with an olympic silver medal but will always be famous ❤️❤️❤️

[librarycards]

"girls could NeVeR!!1!1! beat '''''males''''''™ in athletics????? it's BiOlOgY!??!?!?"

idk bud have you tried um. feeding them

[librarycards]

these murderous idiots are teaching young girls and women to be afraid of calories when eating a LOT of calories is literally vital for performing well in competitive sports. and then claiming it's 'natural' to uphold sex segregation bc of this imposed malnutrition. it's fucking crazymaking.

[librarycards]

the mechanics here are truly horrific. systematically deny [cis] women athletes adequate nutrition and hydration, overwork and injure them. deprive them of the ability to realize the true extent of their strength and skill. segregate athletics based on false ideas of "sex" based on generations of malnourishment and poor training. blame trans woman athletes for the mere possibility that one might beat a cis woman, while claiming that the cis woman's defeat is inevitable. create emotionally stressful and often sexually humiliating tests to "purify" competitive athletics rather than foster the physical health of athletes. continue punishing all women for daring to play sports + have bodies.

[lobaznyuk]

50 YEARS OF UTAH DENIED

[viktoriakomova]

ON EASTER SUNDAY

GOD HATES UTAH HOORAY

[charl0ttan]

nobody is named flavia or sextus any more

[alexamorenoshairdye]

another w for Brazil. I don’t know of any gymnasts named Sextus though.

[lobaznyuk]

stanford playing these fuckass songs for ucla on beam, i'm screaming

[officialpenisenvy]

the thing about getting out of the torment nexus is that you do start thinking "man if you ignore the torment i used to have a lot of fun in the torment nexus"

[hustlerose]

people who refer to their preferred/regional sports team as "we" ie "we beat the away team last night!"

psychopathic

over-enthusiastic

normal/fine

hahaa i do that

Voting ended onFeb 24

[strange-aeons]

i figured it out

[gymnastics-things]

Skill: Tsukahara stretched with 2/1 twist /Zamolodchikova

Value: 5.2

Gymnast: Alexa Moreno

[yurious-george]

I keep saying “separating men and women’s spaces is anti-feminist at its root and all competitions, bathrooms, etc., should be mixed-gender” and people keep saying “trans people should be allowed in their respective gendered spaces.” Which I agree with, but is only a step on the path, and I take issue with people treating it like an end goal. In fact, we COULD eliminate that step entirely by simply having mixed gender spaces.

I remember the fight for mixed gender sports, but now we’re fighting for trans people’s rights to be included in gendered sports. The only justification for gendered sports that exists is Those Men Will Crush Our Weak Little Women. It’s sexist. Segregation is always a means of oppression.

I’m not a fan of that goalpost shift, and I’m not sure why it’s so popular as of late.

[saltwaterembolism]

Humans of all the great apes are remarkably sexually non-dimorphic. The (mean) difference between men and women tends to be ~15%. For reference, other apes like gorillas, orangutans, tend to have about 50% dimorphism. 15% is comparable level of dimorphism to dogs and horses.

Both of which, if youll note, are species that we race in non-sexgender-segregated sports. There's not one derby for boy horses and another one for girl ones.

The majority of the dimorphism that we *see* is social and cultural. Women are discouraged from sports from a much earlier age than men. Women who are naturally tall and muscular may choose not to pursue body building because of social pressures for women to be small and dainty. Women who have broad shoulders, double jointed ankles and webbed toes (the things that make Michael Phelps such a good swimmer) may never touch a swimming pool in their life because of similar stigma surrounding women's bodies that men are not subject to.

Instead of looking to abolish the conditions that create these sexgender differences, trans-exclusionists attempt to reinforce the binary by asserting that women are naturally weak and there is no possible way to overcome this difference except by segregation. Ask yourself: who benefits from that train of thought?