When Dominique Dawes competed in the Olympic trials for the 1992 Barcelona Games, she was the first Black gymnast to ever qualify. Three decades later, 80% of the U.S. women’s Olympic gymnastics team ...

Maryland has produced its fair share of Olympic athletes. One of the most notable, is gymnast Dominique Dawes. She started in gymnastics at 6 years old, with no idea how far she would go or the ...

Dominique Dawes is a Team USA gymnastics legend with five medals to her name including one gold in 1996 and four bronze medals. She was part of the United States’ Magnificent Seven gymnastics squad, ...

So add finding ways to deal with the almost unbearable pressure of making the podium to the long list of skills the U.S. national team vet displayed en route to collecting three bronze medals ...

Former gymnast Dominique Dawes is best known for competing in three Olympic Games, (1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney), winning four Olympic medals. But she’s most famous for being the ...

As a pioneering Black woman in gymnastics, Dawes says she was not only representing her country in the Olympic Games but her race. Gymnastics has witnessed a significant shift toward diversity. Eighty ...

Dominique Dawes will watch Simone Biles this week with excitement, and not a tinge of nervousness. “I’m not the one on the balance beam,” said Dawes, the last American female gymnast to compete in ...

CLARKSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trivest Partners (“Trivest” or the “Firm”) is pleased to announce it has partnered with Dominique Dawes Gymnastics & Ninja Academy (“DDGNA” or the “Company”), a ...

For starters, "There is a discussion now about mental health, whereas back in the 80s and 90s, there was no discussion about it," the gymnast, who last stepped on the mat for Team USA at the 2000 ...