NY Times · Aug 27, 2018
Look at All These Hunky Guys. Seriously, Anyone?
Sam Mikulak is 25, has been to the Olympics twice, and has been the all-around winner at five of the last six U.S. Gymnastics Championships.BOSTON — It’s an endeavor in which chiseled bodies hurl through the air at full speed, muscles pushed to their biomechanical extremes as NBC’s cameras pan the action. One event involves hanging from rings more than eight feet above the ground while using extreme body strength to spin like a top. Another event has men darting powerfully into the air in a series of triple twists, punished should their might take them beyond the borders of the competition field.