Considered the greatest gymnast of all time (and the most decorated with 11 Olympic and 30 World Championship medals), Simone Biles’ name has been on everyone’s lips since this summer’s Paris Olympic Games, and for reasons beyond her outstanding physical abilities. The 27-year-old has become a vocal advocate for embracing your natural hair, and has… Read More »
Under pressure, most fair-weather sports fans would probably agree that gymnastics is their favorite of the 32 categories at this year’s Olympic Games. There’s something incredibly watchable about a sport that inspires equal parts fear and awe. How do they do it when you can barely touch your toes? Truly, the human body and mind… Read More »
Boats on the River Seine, B-boys on the Place de la Concorde and the lure of cold, hard cash promise that the Paris 2024 Olympics, which kick off in the French capital in 100 days, will be a Games like no other. If traditionalists are already white-eyed at bold plans to shatter over a century… Read More »
Former Olympic rower Caragh McMurtry is tired of neurodiverse athletes being treated like problems to be solved. Neurodiversity; It covers a range of diagnoses, sometimes in combination, such as autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia, and embraces the idea that although people naturally experience different ways of thinking, learning and behaving, none are ‘correct’, although some… Read More »