You can learn a lot about a subculture by the slang it develops. Gymnastics has a lot of slang around fear: the twisties, headcasing, mental block, bailing, balking. Gymnastics is obviously physically ...

Just before she took to the vault during the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics, Simone Biles was “fighting demons,” she said. When the Olympic gold medalist and world champion was warming up, she could tell ...