Author: Rick Mc
Career gymnastics coach who loves the outdoors, and the internet.
Brooklyn Moors to Elite Canada
Victoria Moors’ sister Brooklyn has qualified to compete at the Canadian National Team selection meet. Good luck!
World Championships 2018 Qatar
Aspire Dome will host the 2018 World Championships in October. (A good month in so far as weather is concerned.) It’s the largest indoor sport centre in the world, currently being expanded another 40%. I toured it the other day.
I’m confident Qatar will do a super job. Despite having a population of only about 2 million, the Federation is very organized, very well funded. The venue is fantastic.
The Aspire Zone Foundation, also known as Doha Sports City is a 250-hectare (2.5 square kilometers) sporting complex located in … Doha, Qatar. It was established as an international sports destination in 2003 and in the following year an educational centre for the development of sporting champions (Aspire Academy) was opened. The complex contains several sporting venues, mostly constructed in preparation for the 2006 Asian Games. …
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Aspire Academy is a sports academy based in Qatar, founded in 2004 with the goal to scout and help develop the young male Qatari athletes, whilst also providing them with secondary school education. …
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Newspapers are keen to print horror stories. For example – Modern-day slavery in focus + Qatar. The goal is to sell papers not provide any kind of balanced reporting.
Foreign workers with temporary residence status make up almost 90% of the population. I doubt many of those would take you up on an offer of a free airline ticket home.
Euro Stars Gymnastics training
U.S. Boys Future Stars Championships
Olympic sports in the NCAA
There’s a real risk American Universities would drop ALL sports aside from football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball … if they were allowed. Right now they must offer at least 14 sports in order to compete Division I.
Here’s one positive new idea.
The U.S. Olympic Committee has once again begun the process of trying to confront the prospect of NCAA Division I schools dropping sports for financial reasons.
But this time, instead of forming a committee or just talking about the issue, the USOC is seeking applicants for a new job: director of collegiate partnerships. The position will entail, among other tasks, working with national sports governing bodies and the NCAA “to develop actionable plans to reduce expenses associated with sponsoring sports” while maintaining quality experiences for college athletes …
USOC initiative works to sustain Olympic programs at NCAA level
Thanks Ono.
Half Rounds by Tumbl Trak
Fabian – H Bar release series
Team Germany has not year qualified for Rio. They’ll have a second chance at the Olympic Test meet in April. It would be a real shame if Fabian was not in Rio for the BIG show.
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Artur Dalaloyan tumbling
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NCAA gymnasts signing National Letters of Intent
Gymnastike is updating a master list of gymnasts signed who could join their college team in the fall of 2016.
Class Of 2016 NLI Signees
Schools are still announcing, one-by-one.
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