BREAKING NEWS: Russia gymnast coach wants rule changed after Simone Biles wins for the 6th time: “There is simply nothing to watch, Simone Biles has no great performance”.

If you want a blueprint for the perfect modern gymnastics’ coach, you don’t have to look too much further than Aimee Boorman, who guided the incomparable Simone Biles to the majority of her 23 Olympic and world titles.

Boorman was told as a young coach that her positive and inclusive approach to athletes would get her nowhere.

By then, though, she had already decided that was the only way she was going to be; a method intentionally far removed from how she was treated when she was a gymnast.

Boorman was determined not to contribute to a cycle of abuse. “I had a coach that made me fall out of love with gymnastics because I felt so terrible,” Boorman said.

“I decided I didn’t want to coach the way he coached me, I never wanted another child to feel the way that I felt.”