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Coffee Break: Kick Jump Twist!

Gymnast Sunisa Lee trains on the balance beam during a training session ahead of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 26, 2024.
Gymnast Sunisa Lee trains on the balance beam during a training session ahead of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 26, 2024. KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images

by Mac Wilson and Nilufer Arsala

June 27, 2024

The U.S. Gymnastic Olympic Trials kick off today at Target Center in Minneapolis. Elite athletes will compete for spots on both the men’s and women’s teams that will head to Paris in July for the upcoming Olympics. Be sure to keep your eye out for hometown heroes Suni Lee — the 2020 all around gold medalist from Saint Paul — and returning Olympian Shane Wiskus from Spring Park.

You can buy tickets for the trials, or watch from home, so you’ve got options on how you want to cheer on your favorite future Olympians. We’re going to start the celebration today with music!

So for today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs about jumping, flipping, twisting, flying, and all things gymnastics would you like to hear?


Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs Played
House of Pain – Jump Around
Sylvan Esso – Kick Jump Twist
Joe Henry – Trampoline
Van Halen – Jump
The New Pornographers – All for Swinging You Around
Sam Cooke – Twistin' the Night Away