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Katherine Keirns

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Katherine Keirns

@kmkeirns

Historian of Science, dabbling in Gymnastics History, focusing on German WAG as well as sport governance within NGBs. kmkeirns.bsky.social

Research Triangle, NC, USA

Joined August 2011

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Katherine Keirns
@kmkeirns
Apr 28
2026 Artistic and Rhythmic Elite Score Tracker (includes a meet schedule). Feel free to use the data but I'd love to hear if you are. There is a junior version linked on the Read Me Page along with a Artistic Worlds/Rhythmic Olympic QF tracker.
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2026 Artistic and Rhythmic Gymnastics Score Tracker
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Katherine Keirns
@kmkeirns
Mar 19, 2025
It appears that 🇺🇸 Jade Carey has come out on instagram. She would be the second most decorated LGBTQIA+ Olympic Gymnast.
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Katherine Keirns
@kmkeirns
Aug 5, 2024
Kaylia Nemour's gold is 🇩🇿 Algeria's gold. The fed didn't just welcome her and slap a flag on her leo. They invested in her training, and her competition schedule tailored specifically to this goal. Her coach has been explicitly clear this woudln't have happened for Team France.
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Katherine Keirns
@kmkeirns
Jul 25, 2024
Simone stood up for the German team when non athletes didn't want to give up seats on the bus to podium training.
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Katherine Keirns
@kmkeirns
Mar 19, 2025
List of (known) LGBTQIA+ Olympic Medalist Gymnasts Karin Janz (GDR) 🥇🥇🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉 Jade Carey (USA) 🥇🥇🥉 Laurie Hernandez (USA) 🥇🥈 Ioannis Melissanidis (GRE) 🥇 Danell Leyva (USA) 🥈🥈🥉 Diego Hypólito (BRA) 🥈 Arthur Nory (BRA) 🥉 (since people have been asking)
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Katherine Keirns
@kmkeirns
Aug 7, 2024
You know gymnastics isn't over at the Olympics? And you've heard some rumblings about corruption and a scandal at Rhythmic Euros this year but you don't really pay attention to rhythmic and you have no idea what it's about? 🧵
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Katherine Keirns
@kmkeirns
Aug 2, 2024
🇩🇿 Kaylia Nemour's beam save in the AA. (📷 gym_fun on reddit)
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Katherine Keirns
@kmkeirns
Jul 28, 2024
France will have no gymnast in any women's final. No AA. No team. No EFs.
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Katherine Keirns
@kmkeirns
Oct 8, 2023
Rebeca Andrade is close to Simone Biles on floor. That's something that couldn't be said about anyone for a long time and it's such a great thing for gymnastics. And for Simone. She has raised the bar and people are coming to meet her.
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Katherine Keirns
@kmkeirns
Aug 10, 2024
Honest question: If, as CAS's ruling indicates, the USA inquiry was late... who do you blame? Personally I think I blame whoever the official was that accepted the late inquiry but ... if I'm looking it on the USA side I blame Cecile for submitting it late.
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Katherine Keirns
@kmkeirns
Aug 11, 2024
USOPC is appealing the CAS decision to the Swiss federal court. There are very narrow grounds that CAS decisions can be appealed (essentially if CAS didn't follow their own procedures). The most likely basis for such an appeal would be if the US was not given adequate time.
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Katherine Keirns
@kmkeirns
Jul 10, 2024
A thread of the US Olympic leos in individual shots 🧵
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Katherine Keirns
@kmkeirns
Sep 26, 2024
It will never not be wild to me how many elite gymnasts show up to college, have their medical exam, and discover they've been carrying a Very Bad™️ injury. For the school it's like the worst version of Christmas morning.
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Katherine Keirns
@kmkeirns
Oct 8, 2023
2023 World Championships WAG Individual Medal Totals 🇺🇸 BILES Simone 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈 🇧🇷 ANDRADE Rebeca 🥇🥈🥈🥈🥉 🇺🇸 JONES Shilese 🥇🥉🥉 🇨🇳 QIU Qiyuan 🥇 🇧🇷 SARAIVA Flavia 🥈🥉 🇨🇳 ZHOU Yaqin 🥈 🇩🇿 NEMOUR Kaylia 🥈 🇰🇷 YEO Seojeong 🥉
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