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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...

I wouldn’t want to live next door to her either but I do think it’s a bit weird and open to abuse that residents of a building get to vote on who moves in.

I'd say it's kind of the opposite in this context, more a mark of respect - if you can refer to someone by their first name alone it means they're at the very top of their game, the undisuputed great. If you're talking about gymnastics then "Simone" is Simone Biles and always will be. Poor old...

We've come a long way as a society over the past 2,500 years or so, but "don't question the gods" seems to still be very much A Thing for some people.

Well if it's in the Mail it must be true.

IIRC, Laurie's is firmly pitched at the "10-year-old recreational gymnast with big dreams" demographic.

Just how thick is the hard copy of this book? Even your heavily abridged bullet points are longer than Laurie Hernandez's entire 2017 autobiography.

I'm reminded of Derek Bentley's murder trial hinging on whether telling his armed accomplice to "let him have it" was an instruction to shoot or to surrender the gun.

I think we can all agree that inventing the internet was a big mistake