Elena Massing

Features Editor

Elena is The Ubyssey’s current features editor and 2023–2025 culture editor, and a fourth-year student in opera and information studies. She won the Canadian University Press's 2024 Arts and Culture Writing Award and 2025 Community Service Reporting Award. She's most interested in reporting on the performing arts, queerness and health. Send tips to e.massing@ubyssey.ca and features-related pitches or inquiries to features@ubyssey.ca.

Pinned

A blonde gymnast in a blue leotard stands on tiptoe with a large gold hoop in her hands.

By 2022, I had been a rhythmic gymnast for 15 years. I had competed for 12, of which 7 were at the national level. I was recovering from several injuries that I was pretending weren’t career-ending. I was losing love for the sport. Then Nikolova showed up and reminded me what rhythmic gymnastics could be.

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