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American coach Jim Holt has coached 14 World Championships, with 7 different nations (BAR, BOL, ECU, IND, IRI, NAM, YEM).
He knows as well as anyone the benefits of having developing nations compete at the highest level.
In this post, Jim responds to Hardy Fink’s recent article on the unintended negative consequences of FIG increasingly making it more difficult for new nations to compete at Worlds.
Jim agrees with Hardy and adds specific examples from the past.
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This is new for the NCAA, I believe.
The “Who Rocks the House” (WRTH) collective encourages small donors to fund the program through monthly contributions.
Funds go to the gymnasts when they participate in community activities, such as a recent Girls on the Run 5k in Sugarhouse Park.
This is legal under the NCAA Name Image and Likeness (NIL) program.
After one month, WRTH has already collected over 6 figures. It’s working.
… The administration fees are being covered by an advisory board and management team that includes prominent longtime backers of the sport including Marsden, who retired in 2015, Megan Marsden who retired as co-coach in 2019, former Director of Athletics Chris Hill and former gymnasts MyKayla Skinner and Missy Marlowe in addition to fans Dan Lofgren and Brent Wilson.
Former gymnast Kim Brunisholz (who competed in the early 2000s as Allan) serves as Executive Director. …
Salt Lake Tribune – Utah collective looks to ‘philanthropy-fans’ to raise funds for gymnasts
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From 1991.
Two views. Judges, now sitting in a line, see the second angle, where it’s far more difficult to see the split of the legs in preflight.
GREAT vault otherwise.
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This abstract art was created by the Artificial Intelligence engine called PlaygroundAI from the text prompt “women doing Yoga”.
15 editors of this fan site ranked the top 36 teams for the 2023 season.
See the full list.
Here’s their rationale for how they came to that list.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 