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I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely

American I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American

from Boise State Public Radio, part of the NPR Network.

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Happy Olympic Short Waivers.

It's been a rush to watch some of the world's best athletes

push themselves to the limits across all of the different events.

Like Simone Biles, who's repeatedly gone viral

for all of her innovative moves and wins, including Thursday when she won the

gold for the women's all around gymnastics final.

When gymnists like someone fly through the air, twisting, flipping, jumping, all I can wonder

is how does she do it? Then I think, physics.

I am a kind of lover of physics and gymnastics probably better than any other human endeavor are a perfect

personification of Newtonian physics. That's Frederick Bertley or Dr B. The CEO of the center of science and

industry in Columbus, Ohio. As a fellow science communicator, he's fascinated by

how the human body is pushed to its limits in all of the Olympic events, especially gymnastics.

The biophysiology of the human body is not a static thing.

It's made up of trillion cells.

You got fluids flowing through your body, your muscles are moving in different

directions, and you're trying to apply basic Newtonian physics to all your events.

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