Brief reminder here to Ms. Omarosa that her favored candidate is currently receiving a miserable 1.5% support among black voters, putting him behind Hillary Clinton, Gary Johnson, and Jill Stein.

BOW! BOW BEFORE YOUR EMPEROR IN HIS GOLDEN THRONE, lest he cast you over his golden wall, to be ravaged by rapists and criminals for a thousand eternities.

Yeah, puberty at 13 sucks — imagine going through it at 25!

Some of the Romanian gymnasts who trained under Bela Karolyi have some pretty terrible stories. Stuff like him hitting or scratching them and strictly limiting their water even though they were training for 8+ hours a day.

Oh pick yourself up by your bootstraps.

She got trashed for it.

YES. Natalie Dormer would nail that role.

Speaking on behalf of millions of depressives: shut the fuck up, LaToya.

Ah, memories. How can she be 34?!!! Lord have mercy.

That Devil Went Down to Georgia routine! Yes, that’s one of those classic sports moments that I’ll definitely remember for a long time.

But who will play Judy Garland??!? (please don’t say Lea Michele, please don’t say Lea Michele,please don’t say Lea Michele......)

She has a crazy story. Her dad sounds like he was The Worst... he forced his wife to give up their disabled daughter at birth and allegedly squandered all of Dominique’s gymnastics earnings, causing her to emancipate herself at 17. Olympics or not it honestly sounds like the other Moceanu sister had a better childhood.

I heard a horrifying interview with Moceanu recently on NPR where she was talking about her father beating her for not performing well enough or for gaining weight, and one particular incident where he found twizzlers in her room and slapped her across the face in front of the Karolyis, who apparently did nothing.…

Béla Károlyi! I watched the movie Nadia about gymnast Nadia Comaneci like 900 times when I was a kid. He was an insanely effective coach. It’s too bad he resorted to abuse to get these girls to perform at their peak. It’s forever tarnished his reputation.

I expect this is true about many different types of Olympic athletes and their coaches, and I would assume it is more prevalent among female athletes.

SQUISHY IS THE HIGHEST COMPLIMENT YOU CAN PAY TO A BABY. I STAND BY SQUISHY.

It’s not clear whether that was Ferrari or Carlotta Ferlito who actually said that, though they were both “joking” about it. Either way, rancid racist bullshit spurned by pure jealousy of the success of black gymnasts.

Simone can afford to hop though since her degree of difficulty is higher than Aly’s.

so after midnight, right?

what an incredible games for USA womens gymnastics. for aly to come back like that is awesome.