British Gymnastics is delighted to announce the appointment of Amanda Reddin to the role of Head National Coach for the women’s artistic gymnastics programme.
Reddin brings a wealth of experience to the role having competed at the 1984 Olympic Games and most notably coached Beth Tweddle MBE to European, World and Olympic success across four cycles …
Amanda Reddin said: “It is a great honour to be appointed as Head National Coach and I’m excited to take on the challenge of continuing the great legacy left by Adrian Stan. …
Stan now moves to his new role of High Performance Coach Development. Reddin will take up her appointment on 1st November …
Michele Ferrari … 10 July 2010 the US Anti-Doping Authority issued Ferrari a lifetime sports ban for numerous anti-doping violations including possession, trafficking, administration and assisting doping. …
… Usada said it “has found overwhelming proof that Dr Michele Ferrari facilitated doping for numerous members of the US Postal Service and Discovery.”
The report showed that Armstrong had paid more than $1m to a company controlled by the Italian and said that Armstrong had conceded he met Ferrari on a monthly basis. Riders testified that he supervised blood transfusions, EPO injections and the use of testosterone.
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Ferrari was quoted as saying: “If I were a rider, I would use the products which elude doping controls if they helped to improve my performances.” …
… Trials riding is an extreme test of bicycle handling skills, over all kinds of obstacles, both natural and man-made. It now has a strong – though small – following worldwide, though it is still primarily a European sport. …
Street trials, or freestyle bike trials, is a non-competitive variant, using features found in the urban environment. It is the trials equivalent of street skateboarding or street freestyle BMX. …
Kellogg has issued a recall of 282,000 boxes of Mini-Wheats cereal, over fears that metal scraps could be found in the breakfast food.
The company said this week that some boxes of Frosted Mini-Wheats Bite Size Original and Mini-Wheats Unfrosted Bite Size cereal could contain metal fragments from a faulty manufacturing part. …
… BASE jumper Richard Henriksen … a father-of-five, then flies off the cliff head-first as onlookers watch in horror. …
In an extremely lucky chain of events, Henriksen narrowly missed falling against the rock face of the cliff and managed to open his parachute on the way down, NRK TV reports. …
Henriksen, who works as a surgeon at St. Olav’s Hospital, said he had operated on some of his closest friends who had been in BASE jumping accidents. …
Obviously they should not have chained that Bar with only 4 points of attachment. I’d have used 8 minimum.
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