Is Team Chevron dropping their Gymnastics Sponsorship after 2008?
They’ve sponsored Raj Bhavsar, Alex Artemev, Sean Townsend, Justin Spring, Dave Durante, Kevin Tan and many, many more over the past 10 years.
I read that in a StickItMedia interview with Team Gattaca’s Diego Garcia.
Team Gattaca has been a corporate sponsor of Men’s Gymnastics in the USA since 2003. And they plan to continue into the future.
I want to thank Team Chevron and Team Gattaca for everything they’ve done.
We need more companies to step up like this in future.
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It was also mentioned at Intlgymnast…
http://www.intlgymnast.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2239
Companies are really running scared and cutting back from the recession. We don’t know if Obama is going to be FDR and give us a Great Depression or if this is just a short pause. But seriously, they are cutting back all over the place.
This has nothing to do with gymnastics but someone (“TCO”) needs a history lesson … Herbert HOOVER is the President blamed for the Great Depression (they called the shanty-towns that sprung up all over America Hoovervilles). Roosevelt (aka FDR) is the president credited for bringing the U.S. OUT of the depression. Whether either statement is accurate can be argued because, really, no President, even one as seemingly incompetent as the one we’re saddled with until January, has total control over the economy–or anything else.
As for Chevron, gymnastics’ sponsors contracts usually run in Olympic cycles and one just ended. The last cycle it took a year after the Games before the sponsors started signing back on and new ones jumped on board. This is typical. Will Chevron re-sign? I have no idea, but no need to fear monger for what is a normal post-Olympic contract expiration.
Also, “drnoe,” please note that International Gymnast (the publication) said no such thing about Chevron or any other funding source, SOMEONE ON THEIR MESSAGE BOARD did. (Someone who posts lots of Gattaca-related nonsense, by the way.) A huge distinction.
Thanks Anon.
But I’ve since heard this rumour from a number of other sources. It sounds highly probable that Chevron will not renew gymnastics, even if that decision has not been made as yet.
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