Author: Rick Mc

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

Meg Griffin – Floor 😀

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Gymnastics Australia report

An independent review into gymnastics in Australia says the sport has enabled a culture of physical, emotional and sexual abuse which many participants have described as “toxic”.

The report, carried out by the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), made 12 recommendations …

… the report explored power imbalances between athletes and coaches, body-shaming and bullying, and a culture which it said helped “create an environment where abuse and mistreatment can thrive”.

In response, Gymnastics Australia said it “unreservedly apologises …”

Gymnastics Australia report reveals ‘significant cultural challenges’, including physical, emotional and sexual abuse

related – Gymnasts Kirsty-Leigh Brown, Emily Little, and Mary-Anne Monckton are speaking out about their experiences as young professional athletes and the ‘toxic’ culture in gymnastics

lazy Olympic sport reporting

Every 4 years, the mainstream media tries to cover Olympic Gymnastics. 😁

Brave but foolish. It would be like me trying to write about Short Track Racewalking.

The inevitable mistakes are good for an insider laugh, but we should try not to get irked. Gymnastics needs MORE media coverage, not less.

Professional baseball players are paid millions / year. Gymnasts who train much harder are mostly paid nothing.

Spencer put together his Best.Post.Ever mocking a lamestream article. Don’t miss this one.

SIMONE BILES GOT A NEGATIVE ZERO AT GUMNERSTICS. YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.

Olympic Sport Climber Shauna Coxsey

Sport climbing is one of five sports to make its Olympic debut in Tokyo and will be contested from 4 to 7 August. …

… three disciplines – speed, bouldering and lead. …

All athletes compete across the three disciplines with the lowest combined scores deciding the final standings.

Shauna Coxsey named as first Team GB sport climber

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Varna World Cup MAG results

  1. Aurel BENOVIC (CRO) 14.950
  2. Artem DOLGOPYAT (ISR) 14.950
  3. Hayden ANDREW SKINNER (GBR) 14.600

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Pommels
1- Illia KOVTUN (UKR) 14.550
2- Edoardo DE ROSA (ITA) 14.450
3- Abdulla AZIMOV (UZB) 14.150

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Rings
1- Vinzenz HOECK (AUT) 14.800
2- Salvatore MARESCA (ITA) 14.700
3- Marco SARRUGERIO (ITA) 14.450

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Vault
1- Nazar CHEPURNY (UKR) 14.700
2- Marine DRAGULESCU (ROU) 14.525
3- Ivan TIKHONOV (AZE) 14.300

P Bars
1- Illia Kovtun (UKR) 15.100
2- Sergei ELTCOV (RUS) 14.950
3- Robert TVOROGAL (LIT) 14.350

H Bar
1- Tin SRBIC (CRO) 14.850
2- Carlo MACCHINI (ITA) 14.650
3- Krisztian BALAZS (HUN) 14.350
4- Robert TVOROGAL (LIT) 14.350

Varna World Cup results

Vault
1- Coline DEVILLARD (FRA) 14.150 (age 20)
2- Uliana PEREBINOSOVA (RUS) 13.950  (age 20)
3- Oksana CHUSOVITINA (UZB) 13.700 … (age 45) ✊

Bars
1- Uliana PEREBINOSOVA (RUS) 14.500
2- Diana VARINSKA (UKR) 14.200
3- Kelly Jay SIMM (GBR) 13.650

Beam
1- Anastasiia BACHYNSKA (UKR) 13.250
2- Marine BOYER (FRA) 13.000
3- Ondine ACHAMPONG (GBR) 12.900

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Floor
1- Dildora ARIPOVA (UZB) 13.150
1- Hann SZUJO (HUN) 13.150
3- Uliana PEREBINOSOVA (RUS) 13.100

Alexa Moreno for Toyota

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whip, whip, triple twist

SO … it is possible to keep form on triple.

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