USA's Danell Leyva won bronze in day five of the London Games after staging an impressive comeback during the men's all-around gymnastics competition. His American teammate John Orozco fell short.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The selection committee putting together the U.S. men’s Olympic gymnastics team can probably put pencil to paper and write Sam Mikulak‘s name down. A dry erase board might be a better ...
After Danell Leyva’s first gymnastics lesson at 3 years old, his coach told his mother, “Please, don’t bring him back.” Luckily a family friend, Yin Alvarez, saw Leyva’s potential, and soon Alvarez ...
Sam Mikulak knows he’s found the right honey-to-chalk ratio when it starts squeaking. Chris Brooks slathers honey on his hands before adding just a thin layer of chalk. And Danell Leyva looks at the ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — It’s been nearly four years, but gymnast Danell Leyva is still getting around to believing he won an Olympic medal. He doesn’t go to YouTube to relive that performance in ...
LONDON - Olympic medal on the line, Danell Leyva tried to find his center. Somewhere inside O2 Arena, his mother, Maria Gonzalez, knew he wouldn't have to look too far. Her boy enjoys being the main ...
Danell Leyva reached for the horizontal bar as he has a million times in his life as trick pilot flipping through the rarefied air of elite gymnastics. Leyva reached and caught nothing. The bar was ...
Three months ago Danell Leyva had wounds on his leg so gory he could stick a finger two knuckles deep into them. He had tried to break up a fight between his beloved American bulldogs Hercules and ...