Olivia Dunne fails tricky gymnastic move in LSU practice
- The 21-year-old social media personality ranks third among the top NIL earners
- She recently enjoyed one of her best performances in an NCAA meet with LSU
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This is the shocking moment Olivia Dunne attempts a tricky gymnastics move during practice at LSU but fails on camera, as seen on social media.
The 21-year-old student shared a contrasting video of herself doing a backflip on the bars during an SEC gymnastics competition, before several images took to Instagram late Wednesday to show her tumbling during Tigers practice.
“Bars:1 Livvy:0,” she captioned her post along with the hashtags “#lsu #gymnasticfs #tumbling fail.”
The clip also includes audio of former World Cup alpine skier and two-time Olympian Ken Read saying, “There’s going to be times in life when you turn on that soulja boy, and there’s going to be other times when that soulja boy turns on you.”
Livvy’s post received more than 57,388 likes in 15 hours since it was posted on Thursday afternoon.
Olivia Dunne tumbled onto the bars during practice footage of her backflip attempt on Wednesday.
The social media personality, 21, recently scored a 9.90 in floor exercise at a meet for LSU
A day earlier on Wednesday, Livvy joked that she was scared by a fan’s very overzealous reaction to her Instagram selfies of herself in a black Vuori Clothing bodysuit.
The fan responded to Livvy’s post with a lengthy poem detailing how she has “captured my heart in ways I never thought were possible” – to which she simply replied, “I’m scared.”
Another Instagram follower declared his love for her by dreaming of holding her hand, to which Livvy replied with a hint about her relationship with MLB prospect Paul Skenes of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
“I hate to tell you…” Dunne wrote back.
The social media personality, who is a NIL valuation of $3.7 millionwho is ranked only behind Colorado quarterback Sheddeur Sanders ($4.7 million) and USC guard Bronny James ($4.5 million), previously feared for her safety on the LSU campus due to online threats and creeps.
Dunne performs a floor routine during an NCAA gymnastics meet against Ohio State in January.
LSU’s gymnastics team even had to hire a bodyguard for Dunne during meets last year after she was harassed by a gang of “rude” teenage boys in Utah.
Last week, Dunne enjoyed one of her best gymnastics nights at LSU, scoring a 9.90 despite being called up to anchor the LSU Tigers on short notice in floor exercise.
In a competition against BYU, Oregon State and No. 15 Minnesota, Dunne came on for Kiya Johnson in the final minute to anchor a remarkable team performance.
“We ultimately pulled Kiya, not because of anything in particular,” head coach Jay Clark said. “We knew the meeting was close and we had to go easy on her body.”