Rebecca Schuman

1 month ago | slate.com | Rebecca Schuman

Winter Cup, an elite gymnastics competition that takes place at the end of February, is normally a sleepy event, garnering the attention of hardcore fans only. Last weekend, however, the traditional opening meet of the 2025 American season broke out of the “gymternet” and into the regular-person news—for its men’s competition, even! Is this because Pommel Horse Guy is back on his Superman game? Amazingly, no.

Aug 12, 2024 | slate.com | Rebecca Schuman

Skip to the content Five-ring Circus This is part of Slate’s 2024 Olympics coverage. Read more here. On Sunday, as the world celebrated the end of another Olympics and America’s medal-leading team bade adieu to Paris in a cloud of chocolate muffin residue, I know what you were thinking: But wait! How can these redemptive, avant-garde, possibly contaminated but nevertheless ebullient Games end on a stone-cold bummer?

Aug 8, 2024 | slate.com | Rebecca Schuman

Five-ring Circus Even though it has been a remarkably slow couple of weeks for national and international news (… not!), I suppose that some of you still, somehow, had better things to do than wake up at zero dark thirty to watch jacked young people flip upside down on the other side of the world. Maybe you have a “job” or three.

Aug 7, 2024 | slate.com | Rebecca Schuman |Justin Spring

Five-ring Circus This is part of Slate’s 2024 Olympics coverage. Read more here. They came, they saw, they flipped, and they conquered! Olympic gymnastics is, after a breathless week and a half, in le rearview mirror at last. Simone Biles is, deservedly, babysitting her medals as we speak. Stephen Nedoroscik is, I would hazard a guess, solving a Rubik’s cube on the plane home, eager to reunite with his orange cat.

Aug 5, 2024 | slate.com | Rebecca Schuman

Five-ring Circus This is part of Slate’s 2024 Olympics coverage. Read more here. Do you enjoy watching the best gymnasts in the world compete on the best events that they can do—even if they do it in a deeply exhausted (some might say dangerous) state?