Author: Rick Mc

Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.

Georgia highlights from last weekend

Hoping the new coaching group can bring them back to glory days.

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teal ribbons in support of abuse victims

UCLA wore teal ribbons last weekend in support of Jordyn Wieber and all victims of sexual abuse.

Jordyn made her victim impact statement in Lansing MI and made it back in time to coach the meet next day.

Stanford, Bridgeport, Whitewater, NIU, La Crosse, Washington, Bowling Green, Ursinus, and Lindenwood were also spotted sporting teal.

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North Carolina celebrates diversity

North Carolina gymnastics head coach Derek Galvin sat down with his gymnasts prior to their meet against Temple on Friday night, holding a … Maya Angelou poem.

He handed out copies to both teams and read it aloud to his own:

“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.” …

UNC gymnastics reflects on Nassar after team’s Equality Night

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

U.S. Declaration of Independence

new film – teen molested by a coach

… Writer-director Jennifer Fox dives into the sexual abuse she suffered as a teenager, and proceeds to interrogate her own memories with unflinching clarity. …

In the age of #MeToo, The Tale shows how every story of sexual abuse is unique …

The Tale, about a teen molested by a coach, is Sundance’s most unexpectedly vital film

Laura Dern plays the victim as an adult, Isabel Nelisse the teen.

The teen comes to terms with sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her running coach. At the time — age 13 — she believed it was a romantic relationship.

By coincidence Isabel Nelisse was a gymnast at Gymnix, as was her sister Sophie.

Thanks GML.

Oklahoma, LSU, Utah

Week 3 current rankings.

related – A FAMILY FIGHT:

Courage & Strength. Faith & Fight.

Those are the four words, along with the initials DR, emblazoned on a patch worn on the sleeve of the OU women’s gymnastics team’s warmup tops … In the middle is a blue ribbon to represent colon cancer.

The initials stand for Dave Richardson, the husband of the team athletic trainer, Jenn. Dave was diagnosed with cancer in June 2016 and the team immediately rallied around the man they refer to as their “Norman dad.” …

Thanks Sue.

European gymnasts of 2017

Female Gymnast of the Year – 3240 votes

1° Catalina Ponor (ROU)

Male Gymnast of the Year – 8681 votes

1° Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) – 5277 votes, 61%

Rising star of the Year – 1544 votes

1° Rasmus Steffensen (DEN) – 782 votes, 51%

Read more on UEG

Doc Ali apologizes for briefly supporting Nassar

The day the Jane Doe lawsuit was filed, I talked to a very distraught Larry Nassar. He told me that he was so sad that the two athletes that had filed suit has mistaken the “procedure” he had done to them as a abuse. He claimed that it was a justified medical procedure by the National Osteopathic Association and he had lectured about it many times. He was crying on the phone.

I felt sad for a colleague I had worked with for 20 years and later that day I posted, “Sending love and support” on his Facebook page. I now know that Larry was a master manipulator but at the time I felt compassion towards him. …

Ali Arnold 

No doubt many of his past colleagues are feeling the same way right now.