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By Helene Elliott
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Disadvantage to being within a double-twisting layout’s distance from the parallel bars: chalk dust. Clouds of it. The black cloth covering the press table looks like it has a bad case of dandruff.

Great advantage to being here: There are many, but maybe the best is a closed-circuit radio broadcast on WGYM, with former gymnasts Steve McCain and Brett McClure doing the play by play. They know their stuff, and they make it enjoyable to the folks in the arena. Sorry, it’s not available online... only in the arena.

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--Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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