The U.S. women's gymnastics team has among the highest difficulty scores on one of the most difficult gymnastic events: the balance beam. Olympic gymnasts have a ...

Want to follow the women’s gymnastics competition in Paris, but don’t understand the skills or how they’re scored? Here’s a guide. By Maggie Astor Maggie Astor, normally a political reporter, is a ...

There are eight apparatus used during a gymnastics competition: six for the men and four for the women. Both the men and women compete on vault and floor exercise. In addition, only the women compete ...

Wayzata’s coaches made sure to put their gymnasts through “pressure sets” on the balance beam over the last couple weeks of practice. Coaches would scream as the athletes get on the beam, or dive ...

Never in Carly Woodard's NCAA gymnastics career had she scored a perfect 10. She was close, with a few 9.95s on beam — but the University of Oklahoma fifth-year senior finally earned that elusive ...

Daredevil gymnast Lily Smith has pulled off a breathtaking balance beam routine 52 storeys above the streets below. The rooftop sequence, choreographed by the athlete herself, featured gravity-defying ...