you,” says Das. “I want them to enjoy it. And I want them to feel proud. Luckily the effect of them doing something they love was this communal feeling of joy and fun and light in a time when our country, and the world, certainly needed more of it.”“Gymnasts are taking no BS.
They’re calling the shots.”That joy-first approach is Kondos-Field’s legacy. Miss Val, as all the athletes call her, was never actually a gymnast herself (she came to the sport by way of dance and theatre), so when she started coaching she looked at the regimented culture of gymnastics as an outsider.
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