We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Caitlin Rooskrantz is making Olympics history. Rooskrantz, 19, burst onto the international stage when she won gold at the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup Challenge event in Hungary. The victory qualified her for the Tokyo Games, making her the first South African gymnast to qualify for the Olympics through a world championship.
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At this confession, her four teammates dissolved into giggles of agreement. At that point the gathered women began sharing their nerves-before-competition stories, talking over each other with giddy mentions of the shaking hands and near-vom experiences that came when they finally—finally—found themselves on the Olympic stage. In response to which: Her team giggled some more. Instead, they smashed through the high expectations set for them. And yet here they were, after their big, if unsurprising, victory, commiserating and confessing and laughing and acting, in the end, like exactly what they are: a group of young—very young—women. The rings! Here are young women, bedecked of bow and bedazzled of leotard, flexing and flipping and generally giving a massive side-eye to gravity itself. Here are the performance of sport and the performance of femininity, united in a singular, if extremely precarious, harmony. It exemplifies the tensions of a time that is newly distinguishing between the female and the feminine. Sweaty and sparkly, muscular and girly, explosive and controlled: Gymnastics is the successful execution of many different balancing acts.
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