I have found myself enraptured by the US women’s gymnastics team, which has just been dominating the Olympics. Simone Biles is a force of nature, doing things on the floor exercise that I have never seen. And I have a soft spot for Aly Raisman, both because she lost out on a medal in the 2012 Olympic individual all around because of a tie breaker rule and because she posed nude for ESPN Magazine‘s 2015 Body Issue. Chapter One of The “Volunteer” makes reference of ESPN’s Body Issue, but the magazine shown to Dani in the book is the 2014 edition.
Here is a video Aly did during that shoot…