Author: Rick Mc

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

Oleg tested positive for meldonium

Oleg says he only once tested positive for the recently banned drug.

But was banned for 4 years.

He’ll appeal the ban.

Meldonium was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) list of banned substances effective 1 January 2016 because of evidence of its use by athletes with the intention of enhancing performance. …

 A high prevalence of meldonium use by athletes in sport was demonstrated by the laboratory findings at the Baku 2015 European Games. 13 medallists or competition winners were taking meldonium at the time …

Meldonium use was detected in athletes competing in 15 of the 21 sports …

Most of the athletes taking meldonium withheld the information of their use from anti-doping authorities by not declaring it on their doping control forms as they should have. Only 23 of the 662 (3.5%) athletes tested declared the personal use of meldonium. However, 66 of the total 762 (8.7%) of athlete urine samples analysed during the Games and during pre-competition tested positive for meldonium. …

Oklahoma Gym Club – 47 COVID cases

23 gymnasts, three staff members, and 21 of their household contacts.

The median age for infected people was 14, and the outbreak affected people aged 5 to 58.

Thankfully, investigators didn’t find any secondary spread among Oklahoma gymnasts participating at the out-of-state meets. …

How the Delta Variant Tore Through an Undervaxxed Gymnastics Center

Gymnastics Clubs have had very low risk of COVID outbreak, overall.

Discipline. Compliance. A need to protect kids.

On the other hand, Oklahoma has had comparatively low rates of vaccination. 13 people from the Club who came down with the virus who were eligible.

Even now fewer than half of Oklahoma citizens have had one dose. They don’t have herd protection with those numbers.

Read the research document.

USAG MAG Team funding

Though the American men’s team Olympic selection was slightly less controversial and slightly more transparent than WAG, it was still criticized.

For one thing, FUNDING didn’t align with team selection they way you would have expected.

With Men’s NCAA in decline … AND questionable support for the Men’s National team, you have to be concerned for future competitiveness of the U.S. Men’s team.

over-enthusiastic sport parents 😀

“Ok honey, you’re 5… it’s time for you to pick a sport.”

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Simone vs Herself – July 5h

Only on Facebook Watch.

In this one Simone talks about the criminal doctor. The Ranch.

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Yamato Ichiguchi – Pommels

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