Category: ethics

Kenzo is really a nice guy

Heart this on Tumblr.

https://www.tumblr.com/irishdaniel/163691589993/kenzo-shirai-is-a-precious-ray-of-sunshine-a-post

you cannot judge a close family member

At FIG meets.

  • The EC decided the definition of “Close family relative” which is mentioned in General Judges’ Rules Art. 1 and in the Code of Ethics as follows:
  • Judges shall recuse themselves if
    – they are or were married to or live in a registered partnership or co-habit with a gymnast
    – they are related to a gymnast by birth or marriage in direct or in collateral line, including the following persons: grandparent, parent, uncle, aunt, brother, sister, child, grandchild, nephew and cousin.
    The definition shall be applied immediately.

FIG 

Jr World Championships 2019

It’s finally coming.

The EC (Executive Committee) has decided to organise Junior World Championships in Artistic Gymnastics in 2019 and asked the Competition Commission in consultation with the respective Technical Committee Presidents to develop the necessary rules and criteria to be presented for approval at the next EC meeting in October 2017.

FIG

Safety of the athlete should be foremost in planning this step.

Doctors who abuse patients

Read Dvora Meyers’ post on Deadspin …

USA Gymnastics’ Larry Nassar Scandal Is About Doctors Abusing Patients, Not Just Sports

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

social media for coaches & athletes

There are a LOT of issues here.

Social Media 101 for Coaches

Click PLAY or watch tips from Hockey coach Lisa Haley on YouTube.

Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes

Needless to say, Simone is one.

The Baddest, Most Kickass Women In Sports

 

USAG safe sport

USA Gymnastics has hired two key senior staff members as the organization continues its ongoing efforts to protect athletes.

Toby Stark, a long-time leader in child advocacy, will serve as USA Gymnastics’ director of safe sport. In that role, Stark will lead a department focused on athlete protection.

Mark Busby, who handled child abuse and sex crime cases while with the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, will provide supporting in-house legal counsel. …

USAG

I’m wondering if USAG will be swamped with years of litigation, named in many individual court cases along with Nassar.

related – GymCastic 259: The Nassar Plea …

Lindsey Lemke speaks out on Nassar

Lindsey trained at Twistars. Was treated at Michigan State University.

She estimates that Nassar performed his “treatment” on her some 600 times …

“But I thought it was a legit medical treatment. … Who was I to question him?”

In September 2016, the MSU women’s gymnastics team was called into an urgent meeting. Lindsey was now 20 and had transferred to MSU on a full scholarship after spending a year at the University of North Carolina. Officials announced that there were allegations against Nassar. “They said we weren’t allowed to tell anybody,” says Lindsey.

Gymnast Lindsey Lemke Was Allegedly Sexually Abused by Her Doctor Starting at 13. Now She’s Speaking Out.

I’m waiting on the next GymCastic podcast to get Jessica’s take on the most recent developments in the Nassar case. For the first time he admitted guilt: 3 counts related to child pornography. In return, the plea bargain says prosecutors won’t pursue federal charges alleging sexual abuse of four young women.

He’l be sentenced on Nov. 27 in federal court in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Other court cases against him will continue.