The many problems in Brazil are being well documented by Triple Full and other blogs.
I won’t report them here.
On a related good news note, former Brazilian National Coach Marcelo Figueiredo is back in the gym, now in Vegas.
… He trained Brazil’s finest female gymnasts to three Olympic games, two Pan American Games gold medals and 10 South American Games championships. …
The lucrative nightclub business is what lured Figueiredo away from gymnastics after he coached Brazil in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. He moved to Los Angeles to be a full-time disc jockey. Figueiredo relocated again to Las Vegas in 2003, when he was offered a job as resident disc jockey at Krave nightclub.
But Figueiredo, who coached gymnastics since he was 16, missed the sport and grew tired of being DJ Talla on a regular basis.
“You change your life,” Figueiredo said. “You’re up nights instead of days. You sleep late. You wake up and eat lunch instead of breakfast.”
After about a year living in the desert, Figueiredo picked up the phone book looking for gyms that needed coaches. The first one listed was Brown’s Gymnastics, which happened to be about a mile from his residence …
Las Vegas Sun – Famous coach returns to gymnastics after playing tunes for nightclub patrons
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