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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

Speaking of less-than-stellar gymnastics writing, and building on the mention of Wong's mother as co-author, this seems as good a place as any to note that the "how to be a gym parent" book written by Jordyn Wieber's mum and published in late 2012 features several extremely glowing...

"I SAW GOODY MCCALLUM LIKING POSTS BY THE DEVIL!"

In the UK the maximum fine for driving while intoxicated is - literally - unlimited. Or you can get up to six months in prison. And being banned from driving for at least a year is all but guaranteed. A US$100 fine probably works out as cheaper than getting a taxi home if you go drinking every...

c98% of sexual offences- all sexual offences, against all people of all genders, sexes, sexualities ages and races - are committed by men. The vast majority of victims are women and girls. Women and girls wanting some reassurance that the most basic safeguards against that are not being removed...

That analogy only works if everyone carries ID stating what their sex is. We live in a world where men will go to medical school, or qualify as teachers, or join the police, or become the lead doctor for USA gymnastics or a million other things in order to get access to women and girls. The idea...

No, I'm afraid that a man will walk into a women's locker room for the purposes of looking at women changing and, when challenged by some junior member of staff on minimum wage, simply say "How dare you, I identify as a woman". And said junior member of staff on minimum wage then has to decide...

The problem is, how do I know if the person with a ***** getting changed next to me is a perfectly harmless trans woman, or a potentially dangerous man who gets his rocks off by watching women change?

A damning indictment of our sport but... yeah.

This reminded me of the fact that the Olympics used to feature competitive literature. In 1912, the gold medal was won by a poem called "Ode To Sport", written by... Modern Olympics founder Pierre de Coubertin, who had introduced the categoty himself that year.

Key takeaways from a fun few days in Leipzig: 1) I enjoyed the mixed pairs thing a lot more than I thought I would. Some tweaks needed but it could actually work. 2) German railways aren't as efficient as the country's reputation would suggest (two hours stranded in Bitterfeld at 10pm on a...

Danusia Francis and Elisabeth Seitz have both dropped baby news in the past couple of months too. Must be something in the chalk.