Australian Gymnastics Blog:
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2013
This week marks 10 years since an Australian gymnastics team (or individual) first medalled at a world championship.
Our purple-clad women’s lineup pulled off the unthinkable in the team final (technical infractions to an opposing team notwithstanding) and snatched a third place podium finish …
Belinda Archer, Jacqui Dunn, Danielle Kelly, Stephanie Moorhouse, Monette Russo, and Allana Slater (honourable mention to an injured Lisa Skinner) completed the four rotations commendably, finishing on beam …
read more – Back In Time To Anaheim
In Canada we envied the Australian system. Dana Brass and I both made research trips Down Under to study what they were doing right.
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It looks like no Aussie women will compete at Worlds 2013.
Brigid McCarthy explains why.
The Australian Sports Commission’s new ‘Winning Edge Strategy’.
It looks like a loser to me.
Antwerp would be an ideal meet for young candidates for Rio to gain experience. Make it self-funded if money is the issue.
We have a similarly overly elitist initiative in Canada called ‘Own the Podium’.
If medals are the ONLY goal, Canadians should focus on easier-to-win Winter Olympic sports like luge and skeleton.
That would be stupid federal policy, clearly.
Those sports have very few participants. Soccer and Gymnastics have millions of participants.
The societal payoff in terms of health and fitness is far greater in some sports than others.
Olympic medals are not equal.
This is a good example of how socialist government control of sport is inefficient. I envy the USA for not having to rely on the whims of whatever politician happens to be in power.
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