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I quite liked the doughnut medal

Sanctions are really biting now, they're having to make do. She also seems to have been hanging out in the make-up aisle with the synchronised swimmers.

I converted 80lbs to KGs and my jaw hit the floor.

The arc of the sports movie universe bends towards dreadful, largely because the sport itself is so hard to convincingly fake. And while anyone who works in any industry will snigger at films depicting what they do, we're all so familiar with sport that it just looks very, very wrong when not...

I can't believe you're suggesting that Beth Tweddle might not actually have been the author of the literary classic that is 2012's Becoming An Olympic Gymnast.

There are some truly awful titles in there, the post-2010 crop especially. "Courage To Soar" is a particular low point. Don't know if it counts, but I never get tired of flagging the entertainingly dreadful Gym Mom: The Twists and Turns of Your Daughter's Gymnastics Career (2012), by Rita...

My eight-year-old does an amazing impression of a chicken.

I'm a big fan of simplicity in leotard design, less being more. So this is a joy. And in morse code, the rhinestones spell out something rude about MyKayla Skinner.

Is she standing over an air vent?

She certainly looks like she'd float.

I'm happy to order her a Rangers/Celtic half-and-half scarf ahead of her next visit.

I assume she looked at the Wikipedia entry for Glasgow, found that a local football team was called "Celtic" and went from there.

And their teenage spaces are very atypical, especially in the US where homeschooling to allow for more intense training is more common. You've got kids spending all their waking hours with a very small group of adults, missing out all the social and emotional development that their peers are...

There's a PhD thesis to be written on the overlapping psychology of child actors and professional gymnasts when they reach adulthood.

Agree. In any walk of life (politics, entertainment, sport, whatever) people with zillions of followers and a huge level of influence really should avoid dunking on normal members of the public unless they're being actively abusive (which was clearly not the case here). Doing so is simply...