CBC Marketplace is an award-winning Canadian television series, broadcast on CBC Television since 1972. The series is a consumer advocacy newsmagazine …
Marketplace visited 12 trampoline parks across the country to see what was being done to mitigate risks to minors in this unregulated industry. Many children were witnessed breaking the parks’ “rules” without employee intervention.
Staff at Energyplex Family Recreation Centre, for example, watched as multiple children belly-flopped into the same foam pit where Chelsea broke her back doing the same stunt. No one intervened.
At other parks, Marketplace documented flips, stunts and double-bouncing — all considered risky behaviour by health authorities. Children were observed jumping head first into foam pits, and at times, areas of the parks had no supervising staff to enforce safety rules.
At one park, a baby crawling across a tumble track collapsed after being bounced by an older child. At another, a mother held her crying toddler after he did a somersault and landed on his neck. …
Giulia will not be back to competition before 2019. But she is making good recovery from the ACL tear and meniscus damage.
Giulia Steingruber injured her knee in July and is missing the rest of the season because of it. She gave an interview to Aargauezeitung about dealing with the injury and her goals and dreams.
The translation from German was done by Emma Bateman. …
Competitors have been drawn into 12 teams of 13 athletes each, comprising of one acrobatic pair, three men’s artistic and three women’s artistic gymnasts, three rhythmic specialists and one female and one male trampoline gymnast. …