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Simone Biles, relating to gymnasts worldwide here: "They saw it a little bit in practice. Having a little bit of the twisties."
The twisties. The absolute worst.
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I wrote about the twisties — kind of like the yips but upside-down and in mid-air — and what they feel like, why they’re dangerous and how gymnasts try to make them disappear
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Twelve years ago, 47 dogs were saved from Michael Vick’s dogfighting operation. Since then, they've aged and faded from the spotlight. Only 11 are still alive. But they altered the course of animal rescue and gave hundreds of others a chance to live.
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Simone Biles: "I know that this Olympic Games, I wanted it to be for myself. I came here, and I felt like I was still doing it for other people. So that just hurts my heart that doing what I love has been kind of taken away from me to please other people."
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Jordan Chiles: "She was giving us a little heart attack."
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And finally a 9.925 on floor for Maggie Nichols. I think she's going to be pretty good at this NCAA gym thing.
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Simone Biles, on feeling like she has the weight of the world on her shoulders:
"Yeah, that shit's heavy."
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Simone Biles with the quote of the century:
"When you get married, they ask you when you're having a baby. You come to Classics, they're asking you about the Olympics."
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MyKayla Skinner just said she thinks Simone Biles will compete in the beam final on Tuesday.
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In the Michael Vick case, all the rescues wanted was for the dogs to have a chance to be evaluated as individuals. Early on in the reporting process, we decided representing each dog individually was important to this story, too.
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Sunisa Lee said prior to 30-second touch all she had warmed up on floor was turns.
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Simones Biles: "We also have to focus on ourselves, because at the end of the day we're human, too, so we have to protect our mind and our body, rather than just go out there and do what the world wants us to do."
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Jonny was the last interview of the 47 dogs. The explanation for why Jonny volunteers in community seemed like a perfect way for the marathon of reporting to end.
"Somebody took the effort to save him. You've got to pay that back. You can't just go, 'Thank you,' and walk away."
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Sunisa Lee, an 18-year-old from Minnesota, will be the Olympic all-around champion.
No Simone Biles and the United States' gold-winning streak survives.
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We have confirmed that multiple players walked out of DJ Durkin's meeting with the team today.
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Aleah Finnegan just got a big cheer from someone in the crowd after hitting beam and I looked to see who it was.
Answer: Jenny Rowland
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Locksley on Ohio State's receivers: "We had guys looking like they fell out of airplanes, they were so wide open."
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Kasim Hill is Maryland's starting quarterback. His 12-year-old sister, Kaylah, has Down syndrome. Both deal with scrutiny and outsiders greet them with pre-conceived opinions. But, their mom said, "They protect each other."
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Congrats to Nebraska, and welcome to the circle! Everyone's a Big Ten transitive champion!
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Sunisa Lee gets a 15.400 on bars. That's huge — her best score ever.
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Chellsie Memmel: "Full disclosure: I've never made a full bar routine. I was just going to see how it went."
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NBC spends the last decade loving how Simone Biles is pushing the boundaries of the sport and then a few months later has its top commentating team talking about how they want the Perfect 10 back in elite gymnastics?
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Kevin Willard on Maryland's logo:
"I love that Terrapin. I'm going to get in trouble. I wear it all the time. ... I guess the M's important. But I love that turtle."
🙃
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Audie became an agility dog! And there was a children's book written about him, too.
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A gym-nerdy story for
@washingtonpost
: Simone Biles dazzles with difficulty but her strong execution makes her unstoppable
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“I think I’m going to want to come back [to elite competitions] anyways, just to redeem myself,” Sunisa Lee said, “because this is not how I wanted to get my bars medal.”
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The design crew did an incredible job with the interactive bios. Check them all out!
But here are a few:
Cherry, lives in Connecticut, *loves* cats. Seriously, absurd level of love for cats. One cat that lives with him licks Cherry's ears every night before bed.
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Georgia, one of Vick's champion fighters, was adopted at about 10 years old. She came home on Valentine's Day and had a quiet life in Arlington, Va.
"Despite all she endured and her broken tail and her broken jaw and all, her spirit couldn't be broken," Amy Egger said.
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My sister just called: "I hear you're going to Florida. Is it for the bracket thing?"
She then asked who Maryland was playing. I said Belmont or Temple. She said, "But neither of those teams are from Florida."
And so I decided it was best to move on to the next topic.
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Some good news from Maryland: The fan who collapsed during the Iowa game is alert and responsive.
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Rakim Jarrett, who missed final regular season game with an injury, says: "It was Rutgers. They didn't need me."
Everyone laughs. He then says: "I'm sorry, Rutgers."
Maryland won that game, 37-0.
Jarrett's final words as a Terp. Iconic.
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I’m excited to announce that after I finish my internship at The Washington Post, I will be covering Clemson football for
@TheAthleticCFB
. I can’t wait to join such a great group of writers and cover a team 15 miles from where I grew up.
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Simone Biles posted on her Instagram story about what she's been dealing with in training with the twisties.
She included videos from this morning's training, trying to do a double-twisting double tuck off bars. One time she only did a half twist. Another time a 1.5 twist.
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Maryland interim coach Danny Manning: "Keegan Murray is a first-round draft pick. He's a lottery pick. That's what one looks like. We got a chance to see it up close and personal today."
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Heading into the women's all-around final at worlds, here's what the difficulty scores looked like in qualifying for each of the gymnasts who advanced:
Simone Biles has a big advantage. Rebeca Andrade, Jessica Gadirova & Shilese Jones on the next tier.
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Weirdest vaults I've seen from her. She looked totally lost in the air.
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Laurent Landi on YDP vs. Amanar: "Why would I go back to an Amanar? I mean, for me the whole point is not just to win gold, frankly. It's for her. If she tells me what she wants to do, she can do whatever. It will depend on the numbers. It will depend on her safety."
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Big Ten presidents kept return-to-school, football communications out of public eye by using a third-party platform that they view as exempt from open-records laws
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News: Simone Biles will compete in the beam final tomorrow, per USA Gymnastics.
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Do you know about Simone Biles and not much else? Here's a gymnast-by-gymnast breakdown of U.S. Olympic contenders heading into trials + notes on selection strategy and the case for who might make the team:
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Just for fun, here's the difficulty + execution score chart from the all-around final
Simone Biles is the D score champion and the E score champion again
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Kevin Willard: "Oh, we're going to sustain this."
Mentions incoming recruiting class and how this group has laid the foundation.
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GYMNASTICS GRAPHS!
Throughout the last month, I watched every U.S. elite bars routine since 2012. For those 374 routines, I wrote down each release element (a total of 1,545 skills!)… all because I was curious about trends in skill popularity. So with that, here’s what I found:
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An Athens Walmart has the Rose Bowl playing on a whole row of TVs
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My role at The Post is changing! I’ll be working on data-driven projects as part of the investigations and enterprise team. I’ll get to keep writing about topics I enjoy while also spending lots of time staring at spreadsheets. This is my ideal job, and I’m super excited.
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ESPN's "College GameDay" will visit Maryland next Saturday for the Terps' game against Michigan State.
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Fatts Russell: "This team fights. We've been through a lot. Nobody ever quit. Nobody ever put their head down. We have a team full of fighters in that locker room there. I'm just proud of everybody."
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Took ESPN way too long to know/explain the tiebreak here. (And initially explained it wrong, too.) Michigan was clearly aware that it would not advance.
Commentators also never mentioned that Michigan had *two* falls that would factor into all-six-scores-count total.
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Maryland men's basketball (5-0) is ranked No. 23 in this week's AP poll.
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Sunisa Lee: "It's very emotional, especially losing someone that's so important to the team. And she just is basically all of our idols. Like, she's my idol. She's my inspiration."
Jordan Chiles: "My teammate! I see her every day!"
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So the SEC championship meet will include...
– 2012 Olympic gold medalists on Arkansas staff (Jordyn Wieber, Kyla Ross)
– 2020 Olympic AA champion (Sunisa Lee, Auburn)
– 2004 Olympian (Georgia coach Courtney Kupets)
– world champions (Morgan Hurd & Riley McCusker, Florida)
The coaching staff just got a little more fierce. ✨
So excited to welcome 2012 Olympic champion and
@uclagymnastics
star Kyla Ross to the Gymback family as our new volunteer assistant coach! 🐗
Details 👉
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Kevin Willard on student section: "I've got to teach them how to not curse, because the other night, for such a great institution, I think we could teach better language. I mean, I don't mind it. But I'm from New York, so I'm a little different. It's kind of in my vocabulary."
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I’m excited to say I’ll be staying at
@washingtonpost
covering University of Maryland athletics. I’m so happy to get to keep working with all the incredible people here!
.
@EmilyGiam
joins
@PostSports
as University of Maryland football and men's basketball beat writer
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Aaron Wiggins and Darryl Morsell debating their favorite Jalen Smith moment is very wholesome
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Kevin Willard calls Trayce Jackson-Davis "the best college basketball player right now." Willard said he thinks he's more dominant than Zach Edey.
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Locksley says once Taulia was able to FaceTime Tua and see that his brother was doing okay, he was able to settle down and get into a mental headspace where he could play this game.
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Taulia Tagovailoa says he got to go to Florida this weekend to see Tua. And he says he appreciates all the love and support he's gotten.
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Illinois coach Brad Underwood: "This is still the one building I haven't cracked in the Big Ten yet."
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With sports on hold, an online community of gymnastics fans found comfort and joy watching a 2016 meet together last night
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The Andrew Terrell Story: He's scored five points in his college career. Maryland loves him anyway.
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Kevin Willard, when asked about new walk-on Carson Dick: "He's a walk-on. I can't give you much else besides the fact that he's a really good young man. Helps in practice. He's a lefty. Takes a lot of bad shots, gets yelled at. That's all I've got for you."
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The average age of women's gymnastics medal winners in Tokyo was 20.6, the highest since 1968.
Story on this reversing trend:
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"I’m not even going to lie, a lot of times I feel like I’m from Maryland."
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Mark Turgeon on Kaleb Wesson: "He was allowed to be the bully offensively today. I mean, he stuck a forearm right into Stix's chest twice. I guess you're allowed to do that here in this building. ... And if he's allowed to be the bully, he's a heck of a player."
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Don Carey: "I think people know that Maryland basketball is back and we're here to stay."
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Kevin Willard: "I want to get this program back to a championship level. To get it back to a championship level, you need a building like that every night."
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Always appreciate seeing a hurdle. Some concerns on the round-off. Really solid on the tucked full. Like the lunge out of it. One of the best celebratory flips I've seen. Very rare to see twisting!
Execution = B+
Gymnastics difficulty = Level 8, B value skill
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Kevin Willard says his staff tried to re-energize the fan base by 1) engaging former players, 2) recruiting local players, and when they start the season, will "probably play way too fast," shoot a lot of threes, press, get after it, etc.
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Who needs fantasy football when you have fantasy gymnastics? Let me introduce you to the Gymternet.
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Also, are we filing this one away under Don't Overreact After U.S. Classic?
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Sunisa Lee is about to try a new thing for an all-around champ: College gymnastics
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Maryland is now No. 21 in the AP poll. It's the first time the Terps have been ranked since 2013 and it's the highest they've been ranked since 2006.
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Anthony Cowan: "I still don't have a ring. My teammates still don't have a ring. It's a good road win though."
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I can't un-see the fact that this graphic looks just like the High School Musical movie poster
𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙇𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨. 𝘽𝙞𝙜 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙚.
We've got more players in the NBA Conference Semis than any school in the Big Ten.
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The NCAA tournament team hotels are all on Maryland St. in downtown Indy. Is that a sign?
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Starting tomorrow, I’ll be a sports intern at
@washingtonpost
. Super excited to get started!
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Willard: "I was trying to get out of there, man. Everyone was trying to rub my head. I was just trying to get back to the locker room, to be honest with you."
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Willard: "It's very difficult to move your family. It's very difficult to leave some place that you love very much and come to a new place. These guys made this year absolutely phenomenal. I told them I was proud of them, I loved them and I said thank you."
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Taulia Tagovailoa just became the program's all-time leader in completions. He did so on a pass for no gain, and on the next play, he threw a pick-six.
A record nonetheless.
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Sony Michel passed Todd Gurley on Georgia's list of all-time leading rushers tonight. Michel is now No. 3. Chubb is No. 2.
So two of Georgia's top three running backs ever, at least in terms of rushing yards, are currently on the team.
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Mark Turgeon points out that Darryl Morsell made two big free throws on the same basket/in the same building as when he missed two big ones against Purdue earlier this season.
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Olympic gymnasts used to skip college to make the most of their fame. Now they don’t have to.
“Now athletes get the opportunity to have the best of both worlds, as they should,” said Jordyn Wieber, a 2012 Olympian and the head coach at Arkansas.
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Kevin Willard on hoping Auburn fans might rally behind the Terps: "I'm hoping Auburn wins because then their fans will stick around. I'm afraid, if Auburn loses, then at 9:40 at night, knowing Auburn fans, they're probably going to the bar."
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Ever wonder what Bruno Fernando's energy level would be like at a Special Olympics clinic? "Win the game. Win the game! WIN THE GAME! WIN THE GAMEEEEEE! LET'S GO!"
Story:
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Maryland players celebrating with the student section after finishing a perfect 10-0 in conference play at home this season.
Terps dominate the second half on their way to a 75-59 win over No. 21 Northwestern.
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What an incredible beam final coming up today:
– Simone Biles (three-time world champion on beam)
– Urara Ashikawa (2021 world beam champion)
– Pauline Schaefer-Betz (2017 world beam champion)
– Sanne Wevers (2016 Olympic beam champion)
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When Darryl Morsell was 8, he watched his older brother collapse on a basketball court. Terrell, 10, died two weeks later. The tragedy influenced every piece of Darryl’s life that followed — his toughness, his mentality and the way he approaches the game.
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Locksley: "Anybody that's watched the trajectory of our program sees the improvement. ... We're a few players away, a couple plays away, and it's my job to go get those players and to create those plays so that we can take another step as we build a championship program."
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sometimes I still think about how I spent five weeks during my freshman year of college trying to track the dining hall cookie rotation instead of accepting the fact that it was totally random
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