Author: Rick Mc

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

Ukrainian gymnasts rally for aid to war victims

John Crumlish:

1996 Olympic all-around champion Lilia Podkopayeva, 1996 Olympic parallel bars champion Rustam Sharipov and fellow Olympians Iryna Yarotska Goncharova, Alyona Kvasha and Iryna Krasnyanska are among former Ukrainian gymnastics team stars rallying from abroad for donations and supplies to assist victims of the war in their homeland. …

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https://twitter.com/intlgymnast/status/1524397557354582017

Oleg Verniaiev — actively serving in the defence of his nation — is collecting donations to buy supplies for the soldiers on the Kharkiv front.

GymACT Nationals May 14, 2022

2nd GymACT National Championships. Mesa, Arizona.

5 up/ 4 count for team scoring.

GymACT is a non-profit (501C-3) organization whose mission is TO FOSTER THE GROWTH OF MEN’S COLLEGIATE GYMNASTICS.

Started with 6 teams in 2018. This year we welcomed the 12th, 13th, and 14th teams to join – Minnesota, Texas, and Iowa.

Please understand that each team is non-funded by their respective schools and raises 100% of their budgets each year through fundraising, donations, and sponsorships.

Details.

Canadian class-action lawsuit

UPDATE: Gymnastics Canada has responded.

Amelia Cline — now a lawyer — is one of the athletes bringing forward a class-action lawsuit against Gymnastics Canada and provincial governing bodies, claiming lasting physical and psychological damages suffered over many years.

Amelia was coached for 3 years by the Lashins at Omega Gymnastics.

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USAG Nationals this weekend

The second-annual USA Gymnastics Men’s and Women’s Development Program National Championships kick off Thursday and will run through Sunday at Bell Bank Park in Mesa, Ariz.

Over the course of the four-day event, more than 1,600 athletes, who represent the top-tier of developing artistic gymnastics talent in the U.S., will compete across the women’s Level 10, men’s Junior National Level 10 and men’s Junior Elite Level 8, 9 and 10 divisions. …

Eythora’s Aerial Cartwheel

Check the stylish arm action.

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Thanks Chris.

WAY too early look at Worlds teams

Spencer:

We’re now into the fifth month of a new code, a new cycle, a new wheel of celestial moonbeams,  which means…we know absolutely nothing about anything. So here we go.  …

State of the Women’s National Teams

gymnasts in Canada launch lawsuit

More than a dozen former Canadian gymnasts have launched a class-action lawsuit claiming lasting physical and psychological damages suffered over many years.

Amelia Cline is the named plaintiff and there are as many as 20 class members so far.

The proposed class of plaintiffs are suing Gymnastics Canada and provincial governing bodies in B.C., Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan alleging physical, sexual, and/or psychological abuse while participants of programs and activities delivered by Gymnastics Canada and six provincial member organizations between 1978 and the present. …

CBC

Nabieva to high Pak

Aline Friess.

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Melnikov supports Putin’s invasion

Most of Russia’s Tokyo Olympic gold medal teams have been appearing in support of the war.