Suni Lee is adding Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model to her resume. The U.S. Olympic gymnast — who won her second gold medal in the team competition at this summer’s Paris Games — will make her SI Swim debut in the magazine’s 2025 issue in May, the brand announced on Monday. Lee, 21, modeled a brown … Read more
They felt she was flipping their culture the bird. Gymnastics influencer María del Mar Pérez Banus has been accused of “insulting” Japanese culture after performing a “vulgar” acrobatics routine at a sacred shrine. A since-deleted Instagram video of her sacrilegious-seeming sequence has since been shared to X, where it amassed over nearly 19 million views. … Read more
Brazilian Olympic gymnast Flavia Saraiva has the internet buzzing after a Tinder account belonging to her surfaced on social media, according to The Sun. The 24-year-old athlete — who took home bronze in the team event at the 2024 Paris Olympics after competing with a black eye — reportedly has a profile written in Portuguese … Read more
On Dec. 1, 1989, Romania’s Nadia Comăneci, winner of five Olympic gold medals and the first gymnast in history to score a perfect 10, sat opposite an official in the US Embassy in Vienna, Austria, trying to claim asylum. “What do you want?” asked the official. “I want to go to America,” she replied. “When?” … Read more