Author: Rick Mc

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

Georgia Godwin interview

Looking forward to the Paris Olympics.

Has not ruled out continuing past the 2024 Games. She feels she’s still improving.

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2024 American Girl of the Year is a GYMNAST

2024 is an Olympic year.

American Girl — the toy company — has announced its 2024 Girl of the Year—Lila Monetti.

She’s a 10-year-old growing up in Minnesota who is developing new hobbies and pushing through challenges. Both a horseback rider and competitive gymnast.

Minnesota? Isn’t Olympic Champion Suni Lee from Minnesota?

MUST be a coincidence.

Women’s Team Final result

GBR took the early momentum lead, winning the INTRO dance. 😀

But the big surprise was the Olympic host nation taking the Bronze.

USA

Brazil

France

I really enjoyed the competition. A thriller.

There were falls. And some personal BEST EVER routines.

Great Gymnastics overall.

Italy really impressed despite not having some of their biggest stars in this line-up.

Hashimoto Daiki on TEAM Gold

This feels better than his individual World and Olympic AA titles.

Men’s Team Final wrap-up

Japan was very happy to get back atop the Worlds team podium.

China brought in a replacement gymnast — perhaps the only one with a current visa for Europe. And it worked.

You can relive the drama by listening to Kensley’s LIVE podcast. SUBSCRIBE to that YouTube channel. We need at least 1000 subscribers by end of Worlds.

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Click PLAY or watch the GymCastic summing up on YouTube. With transcript.

Khoi Young interview

It looks to me like Khoi will be on the USA top team for many years to come.

The future looks bright. He’s still improving.

Khoi credits Yul for setting up this team Bronze medal.

Rotating with Japan was great as both teams had so much energy. It felt like an NCAA meet.

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Brett McClure interview

After the USA team bronze medal.

He feels the plan to raise difficulty start score over the quadrennial did work.

USA should be even stronger at the Paris Olympics. They have a lot of depth right now.

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coach fired for calling gymnasts ‘beautiful’

Lindsay Nylund was fired from his role as a high-performance coach … in Sydney (Australia), in May, after he sent an email to parents with a picture of his winning team, describing them as “beautiful”.

“Hi all … Our beautiful FDLC Level 8 Women’s Artistic Gymnasts,” he wrote in the email in February, following a competition win.

… “Parents were outraged [over his termination], the coaching staff were outraged, everyone was outraged … Most people are flabbergasted, they can’t believe it. They think this is ridiculous.” …

Determined to get his job back, Mr Nylund has taken the case to the Industrial Relations Commission. …

According to The Australian, the council listed three other allegations in their termination notice, including that Mr Nylund “showed a lack of respect to management” by allowing a one-week membership fee freeze when it should have been two weeks.

He also allegedly transported athletes without parent consent and attended a social event at a local club, which the council claimed breached Child Safe Practice guidelines. …

A four-day hearing at the NSW IRC has been set for mid-November.

News.com.au

Uchimura making a COMEBACK

We can ASSuME he’s been inspired by Simone.

It’s either a comeback, or he’s messing around with his team for fun while they celebrate Japan’s gold medal in Men’s Team. 😀