LAURIE HERNANDEZ

American gymnast Simone Biles says she wouldn't change anything about her second Olympic experience.

The 'frightening' phenomenon Simone Biles experienced before her Olympics withdrawal

Simone Biles, Laurie Hernandez, and Madison Kocian joined 2012 Olympians Gabby Douglas and Aly Raisman to win team all-around gold in Rio.

Simone Biles looks ready for the Tokyo Olympics.

Simone Biles is on her way to a seventh national gymnastics championship.

Simone Biles and her ever-expanding array of signature skills sure look ready for the Tokyo Olympics.

Competing at her first meet in nine years, Chellsie Memmel was alongside gymnasts born in 2005, the same year she won her world all-around title.

Yet rather than greet them with anxiety or fear as she did the last time she stood on the competition floor, Laurie Hernandez embraced them. Yet all of it faded into the background on Saturday at the Winter Cup in Indianapolis. “They handled themselves really really well,” national team coordinator Tom Forster said. And I think if anybody, of course, like Riley, Riley gets it. And so we’ve been able to connect in that way and, you know, in so many different levels.

Sheryl Crow leads a long list of performers and celebrity guests who will appear in a Jan. 1 television special replacing the 132nd Rose Parade, which was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Performers will also include Mickey Guyton, Tori Kelly, Lady A, Rascal Flatts and husband-and-wife duo The War and Treaty. Celebrity guests will include Rita Moreno, Emeril Lagasse, Gary Sinise, Daddy Yankee, Shanola Hampton, Dascha Polanco, Vin Scully, Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez and Rose Bowl Hall of Fame inductee Matt Leinart. The special will also include marching bands, equestrians, floats from previous years and segments on the Rose Bowl football game that usually follows the parade. Cancellation of the 2021 Rose Parade was announced earlier this year.

(Reuters) - USA Gymnastics has suspended former U.S. Olympic team coach Maggie Haney for eight years for verbally and emotionally abusing gymnasts she oversaw, according to multiple reports on Wednesday. The ban of one of USA Gymnastics more high-profile coaches, which was first reported by The Orange County Register and later confirmed by the Washington Post, takes effect immediately and will be followed by two additional years of suspension. USA Gymnastics did not immediately respond to Reuters when asked for comment and attempts to reach Haney through the club she coaches in New Jersey were unsuccessful. The decision to suspend Haney, a longtime coach of 2016 Rio Olympic gold medalist Laurie Hernandez, was reportedly made by a three-member independent hearing panel, followed by a Safe Sport hearing panel. Haney first gained international attention as Hernandezs coach at MG Elite Gymnastics in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey.