Author: Rick Mc

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

ROC (Russian Olympic Committee)

Due to state-backed doping, approved by Putin (I assume), “Russia” will not be competing in Tokyo.

I am happy the athletes were not banned outright as, of course, many did not dope.

… a Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling from December which barred Russia’s name, flag, anthem and other national symbols in a package of sanctions over what it deemed Russia’s failure to turn over accurate data from the Moscow drug-testing laboratory.

The team in Tokyo will be officially known not as “Russia,” but as “ROC”, for Russian Olympic Committee. …

Russian athletes had similar limits on their uniforms and symbols at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang …

Russia’s flag banned but national colors on Olympic uniforms

Canada’s denim Olympic jacket

OK.

I guess I’m too old to appreciate this look.

Twitter pokes fun at Canada’s denim Olympic closing ceremony look

Shane Wiskus wins Nissen-Emery

Congratulations.

Listen to his acceptance speech.

NCAA team final 2021 is competitive

Listen to Bart.

All-Japan qualifications

  1. Murakami Mai 56.266
  2. Hatakeda Hitomi 55.099
  3. Hiraiwa Yuna 54.132
  4. Teramoto Asuka 53.998
  5. Soma Ui 53.932
  6. Hatakeda Chiaki 53.565
  7. Sugihara Aiko 53.432
  8. Yamada Chiharu 52.966

via theGymter.net

timeline of NCAA Championships

Thanks Greg.

perfectionism is on the rise

Thomas Curran and Andrew Hill’s meta-analysis of rates of perfectionism from 1989 to 2016, the first study to compare perfectionism across generations, found significant increases among more recent undergraduates in the US, UK and Canada.

In other words, the average college student last year was much more likely to have perfectionistic tendencies than a student in the 1990s or early 2000s. …

The Dangerous Downsides of Perfectionism

Perfectionistic tendencies have been linked to clinical issues: depression and anxiety (even in children), self-harm, social anxiety disorder and agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, binge eating, anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, insomnia, hoarding, dyspepsia, chronic headaches, and, most damning of all, even early mortality and suicide.

Social media has likely compounded some of those problems.

SO — coaches should not encourage kids to be perfect.

Thanks Steve.

Kayla Williams – Sports Law

The 2009 World Vault Champion and Alabama great is now in law school.

She has made use of Tulane’s extensive network of sports law alumni to network, and she joined the Sports Law Society and the Black Law Student Association.

She is sharpening her legal writing skills, she said, and is looking at working as a law clerk for the Athlete Ombuds of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee.

“There are so many ways to impact athletics and I definitely want to give back to the sport that has given me so much,” she said. “Long-lasting impact. That’s what I’d like to do for my sport.”

She is a World Champion gymnast. Now this Tulane Law student plans to advocate for women in sports. 
Kayla Williams