The world may have grown accustomed to seeing Olympic gymnasts wearing leotards as they compete for the highest honor in the sport, but these garments haven’t always been the first pick for women.

When the U.S. women's gymnastics team marches into the arena in Rio to compete at the Olympics in August, all eyes will be on them. This will be due, in part, to the fact that they are the defending ...

The crowd in the arena watched as one Beyoncé song after another was played. All eyes focused on centerstage — the music, the movements, the mystique of a world-class performer in her element. The ...

Gymnasts without leotards? Aly Raisman says that's not the solution to problems plaguing her sport. "I was recently asked if gymnasts should continue wearing leotards," the Olympic gold medalist wrote ...

It's a garment instantly recognizable to millions of baby boomers – the horizontally striped red-and-black leotard Jane Fonda wore on the cover of her first exercise video, “Jane Fonda’s Workout,” ...

We're getting our first look at what Team USA gymnasts will be wearing to the Olympics in Paris.The eight Olympic leotards for the women's team were unveiled Wednesday.They feature Swarovski crystals ...

It began with a text message from Simone Biles. She had a golden idea for the design of her gymnastics leotard, one that would create a uniform unlike any other worn by a professional athlete. Stream ...

Philippe Leotard, 60, French actor who worked with noted directors Francois Truffaut and Claude LeLouch and won a Cesar, his country’s equivalent of the Oscar, died Saturday in a Paris clinic. Born in ...

KENTWOOD, Mich. (WOOD) — A local leotard maker is asking the community for prayers as Olympics gymnastic champion Mary Lou Retton continues to fight pneumonia. Retton, who won the Olympic all-around ...

Legendary fitness instructor Denise Austin, 68, still fits into her leotards from the ’80s and ’90s. The longtime TV host ...

Women's Olympic gymnastics leotards have dramatically changed since the first competition in 1936. The leotards used to be much plainer and had little to no embellishment. But crystals — and lots of ...