Jordan Chiles goes “loopy” in her new flooring routine.
The 23-year-old Olympic gold medalist gymnast debuted a brand new full of life flooring routine on Saturday, Jan 4, whereas competing on the American Gold Ladies’s Collegiate Traditional. The routine was set to a rocking medley of Prince music that kicked off with “Let’s Go Loopy.”
The gang did go loopy as Chiles, in a glittery purple leotard, soared via the air and caught the touchdown after a powerful collection of again flips. She additionally peppered her routine with enjoyable air guitars, dance strikes, and claps alongside to the beat of the medley.
In the end, UCLA, the place Chiles is enrolled for her junior yr, completed with a 195.250 on the meet, coming in final place, Folks journal reported. However Chiles’ routine has already received with many followers.
One person on X wrote, “loooove the guitar strikes, she’s bringing again artistry to gymnastics as she SHOULDDD.”
“Prince can be so very happy with this routine,” one other person on X added.
One other X person mentioned, “That was unimaginable and tremendous enjoyable to look at!!”
Chiles competed in three occasions for the Bruins on the opener together with the ground, vault and bars, Folks reported. In line with Forbes, the school junior was the one gymnast from the UCLA Bruins to attain two 9.900s, which she earned on bars and vault.
Along with her new flooring routine, Chiles additionally debuted a fancy tucked vault, scoring a 9.90 on Saturday, incomes herself a title in that class.
Chiles returned to the mat with the UCLA Bruins after a triumphant summer time competing within the 2024 Paris Olympics, the place she contributed to Workforce USA ladies’s gymnastics workforce taking dwelling a gold medal. After controversy arose surrounding a bronze medal Chiles received which was contested and in the end striped from her, she vowed to return to UCLA to compete with the Bruins.
Saturday’s meet was additionally a reunion for Chiles and her Olympic teammate Jade Carey, who competes for Oregon State. Carey, 24, competed alongside Chiles, Simone Biles, Sunisa Lee and Hezly Rivera in Paris final July, in the end profitable gold within the ladies’s gymnastics workforce closing.
In 2025, Chiles can be gearing up for the discharge of her memoir, “I’m That Woman” (Harper Collins), slated for launch in March.
