New Orleans, LA · August 7-10
Olympian. NCAA champion. Entrepreneur. Sam Mikulak is all of those things. By Sunday at the P&G Championships at Bankers Life Fieldhouse he could be something more: Three-time U.S. men’s all-around champion.
The youngest member of the Fierce Five from the London Games never left the gym. Despite celebrity appearances to make after winning Olympic team gold, Kyla Ross didn’t want or need a break from competing.
With the start of the 2015 P&G Gymnastics Championships on Thursday, the “Countdown to Rio” begins in earnest for the USA’s top male and female gymnasts when they begin their quest for this year’s national titles and national team berths.
When she told her coach she wanted to return to the national team a year after winning two gold medals and a bronze in the 2012 Olympics, Aly Raisman got an oh-no kind of response.
Gabrielle Douglas, the 2012 Olympic all-around champion, likes her chances of returning to the Olympics. She took about 2-1/2 years off from competing after the London Games, where she and other members of the Fierce Five won the team gold.
Bailie Key said she is conveying more emotion in a floor routine in which she goes from being a circus performer to ringmaster to music from Cirque du Soleil.
She has won national and world all-around championships the last two years so it’s hard to imagine Simone Biles having a rough day in the gym. But it happened Wednesday.
Fans who cannot make it to Indy for the 2015 P&G Gymnastics Championships can enjoy coverage online, on television and on their favorite social media networks, as well as find event information at PGChamps.com
