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Simone Biles, known for her athletic talent and successful Olympic gymnast career, dolls up for competition despite usually leaning toward a more natural look.

What Simone Biles Looks Like Without Makeup

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Unlike many professional athletes, gymnasts competing in the trials are not paid

Simone Biles will not get paid to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics: Here's why

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The gymnast wowed the crowd with her astonishing performance at the U.S. Olympic trials.

Simone Biles Gets Standing Ovation For Breathtaking Vault Named After Her

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Simone Biles once again proved she's the best in the world during the first night of the U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials on June 28.  Unsurprisingly, Biles finished the evening in first place with a 2.5 lead over Jordan Chiles. A huge reason she has such a dominant lead is because of her vault, ...

Simone Biles Earns Standing Ovation for Jaw-Dropping Vault at Olympic Trials

On Friday, Olympic star Simone Biles won the highest individual score on the first night of Gymnastic U.S. Olympic Team Trials in Minneapolis. Her floor routine received a 14.850, and she was awarded an overall score of 58.900. Just behind her were teammates Jordan Chiles at 56.400 and Suni Lee with 56.025.

Simone Biles Does Stunning Floor Routine to Beyoncé and Taylor Swift at Olympic Trials

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Welcome to Start TODAY. Sign up for our Start TODAY newsletter to receive daily inspiration sent to your inbox — and join us on Instagram!. One day in March 2023, Kyle McMorrow of Brooklyn woke up at 5 a.m. with the worst neck pain he’s ever had. “I thought I had slept on it wrong. I tried to massage it out with a massage gun, but nothing worked,” he tells TODAY.com.

This active man, 37, thought his neck pain came from sleeping wrong. He was having a stroke

It’s hot out there so quenching thirst is a top priority as extreme summer temperatures leave the body parched. Icy beverages rule, but which are the healthiest?. Amid all the emphasis on healthy eating, healthy drinking is crucial, too, since sugary options can derail a nutritious diet, experts note.

What's the healthiest beverage? The No. 1 pick, according to dietitians

Fred Richard envisioned this long ago. All of it. The confetti. The flashing lights. The adrenaline rush of hearing his name called as an Olympian. The charismatic 20-year-old who has made it his life’s mission to make men’s gymnastics relevant in the United States knew reaching the Olympics would be a vital step in the process.

Fred Richard headlines a US men’s gymnastics team that will head to Paris with a shot to medal

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The first night of the women’s competition at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Gymnastics was not at all what was anticipated. 16 women were set to compete at the trials. It once seemed relatively clear which athletes would be on the women’s U.S. Olympic Gymnastics team heading to Paris this summer. Simone Biles, the greatest of all time, no other introduction necessary. Shilese Jones, the number two gymnast in the U.S. and six-time world medalist. Skye Blakely, who placed second at the Winter Cup and U.S. Gymnastics Championships this year.

Olympic Trials injuries cause tough night, team selection shake-up in U.S. women’s gymnastics

Tropical Storm Beryl has become a major hurricane forecast to bring life-threatening winds and storm surge to the Caribbean, according to the National Hurricane Center. The hurricane is headed towards the Windward Islands, which include Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and Martinique. As of Saturday evening, Beryl is about 720 miles east-southeast of Barbados with maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour. It’s moving west at 22 miles per hour.

Tropical Storm Beryl becomes major hurricane forecast to bring life-threatening conditions to the Caribbean

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Kelcey Wetterberg and Reece Weaver as well as DCC director Kelli Finglass stop by the TODAY plaza to talk about their new Netflix docuseries “America’s Sweethearts” that pulls back the curtain on the extensive audition and training process. Then, eight members of the squad perform a routine!

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders talk ‘America’s Sweethearts’ series

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Olympic gymnastics hopefuls Kayla DiCello and Shilese Jones scratched from the first night of the U.S. Olympic trials on Friday due to injury. The 20-year-old DiCello, an alternate on the 2020 Olympic team, failed to complete her vault, instead opting to flip over once and land safely on her back. She was immediately tended to by medical staff before being carried off the competition floor.

Olympic gymnastics hopefuls DiCello and Jones scratch from U.S. trials due to injuries

The 1970s might be best remembered for being an experimental decade across many fronts but baby names wasn’t necessarily one of them. The top baby boy names of the 1970s were generally traditional — names that have been topping the baby names charts for 100 years. According to Social Security Administration data, four of the top 10 baby boy names in the 1970s — James, John, Robert, and William — were also in the top 10 list of names 50 years earlier, in the 1920s.

Top 50 baby names of the 1970s

Summer is officially here, which means warmer weather and releasing our feet from their closed-toe confines. But as people swap boots for sandals and spend more time outside, foot doctors are urging caution. The summer can be hard on the feet and present a number of challenges, which is why...

I'm a foot doctor. Avoid these 5 mistakes that can hurt your feet this summer

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Perhaps the biggest difference at this stage of Simone Biles' career is that her mind and body are in sync. She and her coaches explain how.

Why Simone Biles is 'close to unstoppable' as she keeps getting better with age

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Minnesota news anchor Jason Hackett recently attended a basketball game with his partner of five years. And for the first time, he didn't care if anyone was watching them. “He had his hand on my knee, and we were obviously together and I didn’t give a damn about what people thought,” Hackett, 36, tells TODAY.com.

See a Minnesota morning anchor come out as gay on live TV: 'I'm so nervous right now'

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Back-to-school season is right around the corner for many parents, which means it's time for sales tax holidays. Whether you need new shoes, a backpack or a new laptop, check out this list. Some states give parents a break with seasonal tax holidays, during which there’s no state sales tax on certain items like clothing, school supplies and even computers.

16 states have back-to-school sales tax holidays: Is yours one of them?

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One of the stars of Netflix’s “America’s Sweethearts” simply epitomizes the show's title. Reece Weaver is one of dozens of women to make the 2023 Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders squad and she's featured prominently in the new docuseries. As Reece auditions for and eventually joins the squad,...

Are Reece and Will from ‘America’s Sweethearts’ still together?

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ELENA Arenas has given an emotional goodbye to fans after announcing her departure from LSU. After a successful four-year career with LSU gymnastics, Arenas is retiring from gymnastics. Arenas suffered a back injury that threatened her career during the 2023 season, and she barely competed because of it. After deliberation, she decided it was time […]

‘I’d do gymnastics for 100 years’ says Elena Arenas as Olivia Dunne’s teammate says emotional farewell to LSU

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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (June 28, 2024) – On an unpredictable evening, Simone Biles (Spring, Texas/World Champions Centre) emerged with a more than two-point leading margin after Day 1 of women’s competition at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Gymnastics at Target Center. Biles’ 58.900 all-around score was...

Biles tops all-around on first day of women’s action at U.S. Olympic Team Trials – Gymnastics

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What are the twisties in gymnastics? Simone Biles and her coach explain the phenomenon

Just before she took to the vault during the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics, Simone Biles was “fighting demons,” she said. When the Olympic gold medalist and...

What are the twisties in gymnastics? Simone Biles and her coach explain the phenomenon

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