The women’s U.S. gymnastic team is expected to bring home the gold from the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro this summer, and apparently Tumblr users are taking on the task of reporting the sport where mainstream media has failed.
Another popular site actually titled The Gymternet was begun by Laura Hopkins, who had previously worked in a law firm and has now been hired by NBC as a gymnastics researcher for their digital broadcast team in Rio for the Games.
Anecdotes like Maroney’s about smiling through her pain are less and less acceptably relegated to the shadows: the audience for gymnastics coverage won’t settle for it. You can and should read the rest of Reeves article here.