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U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles competes in Wonder Woman cosplay

Jordan Chiles nails it.

 

Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

Internet Culture

Posted on Aug 21, 2018   Updated on May 21, 2021, 8:20 am CDT

Seventeen-year-old competitive gymnast Jordan Chiles is a real-life Wonder Woman.

Chiles was on the U.S. women’s gymnastics team from 2013 to 2017, meaning she’s already a certified badass. She’s won medals on the national and international levels, and while she didn’t make the U.S. team this year, she certainly made a splash. At the national championships this week, she competed wearing a Wonder Woman cosplay outfit, using the Wonder Woman theme as her backing music.

This all went down during the floor exercise, one of the most popular competition elements. Athletes get a lot of creative freedom here, allowing them to choreograph complex routines with their own costumes and music.

Chiles joins a growing lineup of nerdy athletes who compete with sci-fi and superhero-themed programs. Along with the Marvel superhero costumes worn by Team USA’s skiers at the Winter Olympics this year, we’ve recently seen a  Harry Potter gymnastics routine and competitive figure skaters dressing up as anime characters and skating to Star Wars music. Whoever said sports aren’t for geeks?

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*First Published: Aug 21, 2018, 7:07 am CDT