I certainly agree with #1 on this list.
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Kyle Shewfelt’s stuck double double to win Floor at the 2004 Olympics is another highlight.
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new USA Gymnastics Safe Sport Policy
The Board approved the new USA Gymnastics Safe Sport Policy – replacing the previous Participant Welfare Policy – which includes key updates to USA Gymnastics safe sport policies and procedures. Effective immediately, the policy outlines the scope of the organization’s commitment to promoting a safe environment, requirements and expectations placed on members, and incorporates the authority and jurisdiction of the U.S. Center for SafeSport. …
Additionally, USA Gymnastics is in the final stages of hiring a Director of Safe Sport. …
The Daniels report provided 70 recommendations in 10 key areas …
USA Gymnastics has been very slow getting to this point. Hopefully they’ve been slow but thorough.
related – Tony Retrosi – Moving Forward- Chaos or Community
Sae Miyakawa – Floor
Elite gymnasts need Pak
Spencer:
At this point, the formula for an internationally competitive D-score on bars is abundantly clear. It took a while—a little too long—for everyone to figure it out, but we’re all finally on the same page. Bars is all about alternating E and D flight elements for as many 0.2 CV combinations as possible.
Since those who connect same-bar releases to each other are a rare breed, alternating E and D flight elements means a cloud of E+D+E and D+E+D transition-element sandwiches in order to get the most out of the code. …
Olga Astafyeva – Bars
Plenty of potential here.
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Johanna Quaas competing at age 91
Johanna just competed the Deutches Turnfest in Berlin, likely the largest sporting festival and competition in the world with an attendance this year of 80,000 competitors aged 4-94.
… Today, it appears she plans to keep competing until she can’t, which may be a while because she says it’s precisely her competing that keeps her young.
‘My face is old but my heart is young’: World’s oldest gymnast still has moves at 91
Yvonne Tousek – thumbs around the Bar
Double Olympian and 2001 NCAA women’s Bar champion Yvonne Tousek has just retired as a performer with Cirque du Soleil.
Now Yvonne Tousek Renne, she’s joined Cirque du Soleil’s Casting Team as an Acrobatic Talent Scout.
Around 1999 Yvonne began swinging Bars with — as much as possible — her thumbs around the Bar. You have more control.
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Mike Rowe now MSU Head Coach
Rowe has spent the last three seasons as assistant coach at his alma mater, joining the coaching staff in 2014. He was an integral part in returning Spartan gymnastics team to NCAA postseason competition in 2015, placing fourth at the Iowa State Regional and ending the season with a No. 26 national ranking. …
Mike Rowe Named Michigan State University Head Gymnastics Coach
Aly Raisman book in time for Christmas
Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything
Fierce is slated for publication on November 14.
Olympic Gymnast Aly Raisman Is Turning Her Private Journals Into a Memoir
Oleg Verniaiev interview
The most interesting I’ve ever seen from Oleg. He has no plans to slow down nor stop competing the AA.
VERNIAIEV: IF I’M COMPLETELY READY IN TOKYO, KOHEI WON’T BEAT ME
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