Year: 2016

Gymnastics Ontario Congress, Aug 26-27

G.O. has 24 speakers lined up this year, including myself. I’ll be presenting in both REC and MAG streams.

NICK BLANTON, PAULA JOHNSON, ANNE JOSEPHSON, DENIS VACHON and CRAIG SMITH are a few of the other names you may know.

If interested, check the 2-day schedule.

Coaching Congress

GOCoachingCongress.com

Maggie Nichols training for Oklahoma

Maggie is ready to move on after not being selected for Rio, not even as an alternate.

She’ll be a superstar there without question.

Maggie Nichols competes on the floor exercise during the women's U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials in San Jose, Calif., Friday, July 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Maggie Nichols competes on the floor exercise during the women’s U.S. Olympic gymnastics trials in San Jose, Calif., Friday, July 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

diving platform collapses

A diving platform collapsed when Russian athletes were performing synchronized diving during their Rio 2016 Olympic preparations in Havana, Cuba.

Sergey Nazin was executing a synchronized dive with his partner …

“The competition had to be stopped, so the doctors could check on him. But he returned to the action and won his fourth gold medal that day” …

RT Sport

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

(via Thomas Trapp)

Lieke Wevers – Floor

I congratulation Lieke on putting together an international routine with only 2 tumbling passes. It shows that FIG rules do not force every competitor into doing near compulsory sets on Floor. 🙂

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.