The American Women's All-Around Winning Streak Has Finally Been Broken

And maybe that's a good thing.

Yesterday the U.S. women’s decade-long all-around gold winning streak was broken when Russian Angelina Melnikova, 21, defeated American Leanne Wong for the title at the 2021 world championships. This result was entirely expected—I, like many others, had noted that with 2021 Olympic all-around silver medalist Rebeca Andrade deciding to sit the all-around…