Judy coached 1992 Canadian Olympian Jennifer Wood.
Training re-started at Kin June 15th. The top girls had worked back up to 4 hours / day summer training by the end of July.
The Gym itself is being redesigned post the COVID-19 break for more advanced kids, fewer Recreation. That’s likely to be membership reality in the near term.
… Where are all the female judges in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics (MAG)?
With 852 MAG Brevet level judges worldwide, only 13 are female. …
… It wasn’t until 2013 when Great Britian’s Nikki Hanley became the first woman to judge men’s gymnastics at the World Championships …
While Nikki was the first female MAG Brevet judge to judge at a world championships, Australia’s Kath Graham was the first known woman to pass the MAG Brevet exam. After passing the exam in 1989, and each successive 4 years after that, she was repeatedly denied accreditation by the International Federation of Gymnastics (FIG). The FIG was contacted for comment and noted that they had no records regarding the first female Brevet judges.
Finally, in 2001, Kath was approved to begin judging, however, it wasn’t until 2005 that she became the first Brevet-level female to judge MAG internationally. Kath’s first assignment was the University Games in Izmir. The following year, she became the first female to judge the Commonwealth Games. …
In my experience in Canada, females have always been welcome to judge boys.
I recall writing the FIG exam with Joanie Fortin from Quebec, one of the best judges in the room. Joanie got lots of respect from the old boys club there, most of whom scored lower.
You have opportunity to report incidents to FIGalongside National reporting systems.
Watanabe:
In the wake of this (Nassar) affair, the FIG has established the Gymnastics Ethics Foundation to encourage anyone to report any form of rules violation, abuse and harassment, and to provide a safe, confidential mechanism to do so. www.gymnasticsethicsfoundation.org/safeguarding
The task was not easy, but today the Foundation is fully operational and is investigating several cases.
As well as any form of physical violence clearly being intolerable, insults and threats have no place in any training hall. …
Sara Teristi … “first met Larry Nassar–the most prolific known sex criminal in American sports history–at a gym in Michigan in late 1988.
She was a young gymnast in a vulnerable state, she says, having been emotionally trampled by her hard-driving coach, John Geddert, a man who made her feel worthless.
Nassar, who was volunteering as team doctor, zoomed in on her right away. …
Today, she says she wrestles more with the psychological abuse of her coach than the sexual abuse of the doctor. …
The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has been urged to hold a worldwide symposium “as soon as possible” to address the coaching culture within the sport in the wake of several abuse scandals.
In an open letter to the FIG, the Royal Dutch Gymnastics Federation (KNGU) expressed concern the culture portrayed in the Netflix documentary Athlete A is “not isolated but constitutes a risk for the entire world of gymnastics around the globe”. …
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