Year: 2016

Shang Chunsong helps family out of poverty

One of the great stories for Rio.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Once while in pain being stretched she BIT the coach. 🙂

via Gymternet Clan

coaching Robots

Nick Ruddock:

How do you want your athletes to remember their training in years to come?

How do you want them to remember the time you spent with them?

Would they have positive memories, or negative thoughts?

Are you suppressing character or allowing it to flourish?

Are you facilitating creativity or restricting it?

Do your athletes regularly laugh and smile whilst training?

Are you having fun whilst you coach?

Do you enjoy the time spent with your athletes?

Do they regularly laugh and smile whilst training?

Most importantly, does the thought of spending another ten years in your current conditions and environment scare you or excite you?

Food for thought as always …

15-Robots

Russian gymnasts arrive Brazil

Andrei Rodionenko is already answering questions regarding whether or not his gymnasts dope.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Kiwis happy with Olympic accomodations

New Zealand athletes content as they move into Rio Olympics village

 

Click PLAY or watch a CNN tour on Facebook. No TVs. 🙂

Thanks Avril.

Kohei on the IOC doping decision

“It’s absolutely wrong to ban athletes who have not broken the rules. It (this decision) is good,” said Uchimura, a six-times world all-around champion.

“Those who dope can’t complain even if they get banned for life,” the 27-year-old Japanese told the Kyodo news agency.

Reuters

Olympic gold medal gymnast Kohei Uchimura poses for a photo after a training session at the National Training Center in Tokyo, Japan, February 26, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
Olympic gold medal gymnast Kohei Uchimura poses for a photo after a training session at the National Training Center in Tokyo, Japan, February 26, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

You can argue that all Russian athletes should be banned. Including gymnasts. Many are taking that position. I respect the argument.

Russian sport is corrupt and deserves sanction up to but not including disallowing athletes and coaches not proven personally guilty. That’s my opinion.