So flexible for a power gymnast.
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Year: 2024
Quebec highlights – CAN Nationals
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Brett Ince – GBR Women’s Olympic Coach
Brett Ince, Head of Elite Programme at Park Wrekin, has been named as the coach for the GB Women’s Team at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris this summer.
I know it has been Alice’s dream to go to the Olympics with Brett as the coach and they have both worked tirelessly towards this goal.
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Fred Richard – remember the name
If you’re looking for Frederick Richard on the University of Michigan’s campus, the odds are pretty good that you’ll find him at the Newt Loken Training Center. That’s where he spends most of his time these days.
Inside the walls of the chalk-filled training gym, Richard starts his day at 10 a.m. with physical therapy, followed by yoga – to keep his flexibility on point, of course. Then he heads to practice with his Michigan teammates for the next four hours, followed by one or two hours of social media content planning and filming. …
Following the Olympics, Richard will join four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and a star-studded cast on a 30-city tour designed to celebrate the sport of gymnastics.
It all helps Richard’s mission to make men’s gymnastics relevant in a country where the women have garnered much of the attention for decades. …
Frederick Richard wants you to remember his name – and his sport
NBC Gymnastics commentators
No Nastia.
Terry Gannon, Play-by-Play (Primetime Show)
- 7th overall NBC Olympics assignment and second consecutive for gymnastics
Tim Daggett, Analyst (Primetime Show)
- 10th overall NBC Olympics assignment; 9th time serving as NBC Olympics’ gymnastics analyst
- Two-time Olympic medalist at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, including gold in the team event
Samantha Peszek, Analyst (Primetime Show)
- Makes NBC Olympic broadcast debut
- Member of silver medal-winning U.S. women’s gymnastics team at 2008 Beijing Olympics; member of gold medal-winning U.S. team at 2007 World Championships
- Three-time NCAA champion at UCLA
John Roethlisberger, Analyst/Reporter (Primetime Show)
- 2nd Olympic assignment after debuting in Tokyo
- Three-time U.S. Olympic gymnast (1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, 2000 Sydney), four-time U.S. all-around champion, and four-time U.S. pommel horse champion
Zora Stephenson, Reporter (Live Daytime and Primetime Show)
- 3rd Olympics with NBC Sports, previously serving as social media host for 2022 Beijing Olympics and basketball reporter at Tokyo Olympics in 2021; also working as sideline reporter for second week of Team USA Men’s and Women’s Olympic basketball games this summer
Rich Lerner, Play-by-Play (Live Daytime)
- 4th NBC Olympics assignment after debuting in Rio
Laurie Hernandez, Analyst (Live Daytime)
- 2nd NBC Olympics assignment after debuting in Tokyo
- Part of gold medal-winning “Final Five” team at 2016 Rio Olympics, where she also won silver medal on balance beam
Justin Spring, Analyst (Live Daytime)
- Makes NBC Olympics debut
- Member of bronze medal-winning U.S. men’s gymnastics team at 2008 Beijing Olympics; four-time NCAA individual champion at Illinois
Athlete-Centered approach by Hiroaki SATO
Hiro is Japan’s MAG Head Coach. And former personal coach to Kohei Uchimura.
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U.S. gymnasts competing Olympics for other nations
You probably recall the disaster that was Nellie Kim, President of the FIG Women’s Technical Committee, pushing for American Kylie Dickson to compete for Belarus in Rio.
It was one of Nellie Kim’s many ethical disasters.
But I’d argue that — more often than not — having a gymnast from a bigger nation represent a smaller nation DOES help Gymnastics there. For example, I fully expect WAG to boom over the next couple of Olympic cycles in Philippines.
Should these athletes have qualified to Paris?
- Phillipines – Aleah Finnegan
- Phillipines – Emma Malabuyo
- Phillipines – Levi Jung-Ruivivar
- Colombia – Luisa Blanco
- Haiti – Lynnzee Brown
- Syria – Lais Naijjar (MAG)
- Bulgaria – Kevin Penev
Read a thoughtful article by Caroline Price in Forbes:
Americans In Paris: Nationality Changes Shaping Olympic Gymnastics
JaFree Scott – 3 Tkachev series
The most connected Tkachevs I’ve ever seen shown by a female gymnast.
British Olympic Teams
Max Whitlock OBE, Joe Fraser, Jake Jarman, Harry Hepworth and Luke Whitehouse.
Reserves James Hall, Courtney Tulloch.
Alice Kinsella, Becky Downie MBE, Georgia-Mae Fenton, Ruby Evans and Abigail Martin.
Reserves Ruby Stacey, Charlotte Booth and Corey Walkes.
Cleo Washington, Sarah Korngold, Owen Field interviewed
Cleo Washington, co-coach of 2017 all-around World Champion Morgan Hurd; Sarah Korngold, current coach of team World Champion Shilese Jones; and Owen Field, coach of team World Champion Leanne Wong and also associate head coach at Florida University.
An informative interview for every coach.
Consensus was that Valeri was excellent when he had the role of Development Coordinator.
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