Category: Press
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4-Time Olympic Medalist David Boudia Announces Return To Diving, Eye On 2020 Olympics
TeamUSA Seven-time USA Diving athlete of the year and three-time Olympian David Boudia announced on Tuesday that he will return to competitive diving, ending his one-year break from the sport following the Olympic Games Rio 2016. Boudia said he decided in January that he would return to the sport and in June decided to “pull the trigger.”…
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Olympic champion Boudia to announce diving future next week
AP Olympic diving champion David Boudia will announce his future in the sport next week. The 28-year-old Boudia took a break after winning two medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics, skipping this year’s world championships in Budapest and waiting until after the birth of his second child to reveal whether he would return to the…
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Former Olympians hold clinics for young gymnasts at bases across Japan
Stars & Stripes YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Some youngsters at Yokota in western Tokyo jumped at the chance to attend a gymnastics clinic led by Olympic gold medalists Wednesday. At least 65 young gymnasts leaped, tumbled, flipped and rolled on the mats at the base’s Samurai Fitness Center under the watchful eyes of some…
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Laurie Hernandez Speaks Out on Internet Trolls and Cyberbullies: ‘They Would Never Say That to Your Face’
People Laurie Hernandez earned the moniker “The Human Emoji” because of her effervescent personality and infectious wide-eyed grin, but the Olympic gold medalist and Dancing with the Stars winner admits she’s not always smiling — especially while looking at social media. “Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, they can be really harsh places,” Hernandez, 17, tells PEOPLE. “People…
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For Rio Olympic Stars, spotlight hasn’t faded
USA Today USA TODAY Sports revisits some of the biggest names in Rio to see how their lives have changed over the last 12 months. Gymnast Hernandez keeps juggling On the rare morning she gets to sleep in, Laurie Hernandez often finds herself wondering not so much where she is but how she got there.…
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