tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
Having been to that nation for MAG Gymnastics courses, I’m thrilled to see female gymnasts representing The Kingdom internationally.
This cannot have been easy for these young women and their families.
Coach Elena Eremina, bronze AA at the 2017 Worlds, posted a behind the scenes vlog from Pharoah’s Cup in Egypt. Abumansoor won Saudi’s 1st ever international WAG medals.
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From FIG by email:
We hereby inform you that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published the main anti-doping regulations and documentation that will come into force on 1 January 2026.
2026 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods
2026 Summary of Major Modifications and Explanatory Notes
Please note that a mobile-friendly digital version of the 2026 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods will be published on 1 January 2026.
They have a lot of depth, but I’m surprised …
I certainly respect the FIG president for making the extra journey on behalf of the worldwide Gymnastics community.
Level 10 gymnast Cody Bennett was injured when he landed on the edge of the foam pit training H Bar at Evolution Gymnastics Academy during an open gym, according to a $350M lawsuit.
Attorneys for the family of the Chesapeake teen are alleging a “loose foam pit” caused the boy to sustain a major spinal cord injury in 2024, resulting in his quadriplegia.
The lawsuit alleges that the gymnastics foam pit was too shallow and did not have enough foam cubes, which resulted in Cody Bennett, then 16 years old, sustaining a spinal cord injury.
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I’ve been to Riyadh a couple of times for FIG. Coaches told me there were no competitive female gymnasts in the nation at those times.
Happily, there are girls and young women training today in Jeddah, coached by Elena Eremina and her partner, Yuri Sherevin.
The team will soon (mid September) be competing at the newly FIG-accredited Pharoahs’ Cup in Cairo. This is the most important WAG competition in Africa.
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Emma trained at the Olga club in England, coached by Monica & Brian Phelps.
Coach Brian Phelps was jailed in 2008, aged 64, after admitting a string of historical indecent assaults against three children aged between six and 15, in the 1970s and 1980s.
The rapist later escaped to France. Whereabouts unknown.
Emma’s e-book comes out worldwide on Sept 2nd, paperback on the 9th.
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Thanks Jess.
… young coach moved from Mississippi to Iowa to take a job in 2018 at an elite academy known for training Olympic champions.
Liang “Chow” Qiao, the owner of Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute in West Des Moines, thought highly enough of his new hire, Sean Gardner, to put him in charge of the club’s premier junior event and to coach some of its most promising girls. …
Last week, more than three years after being suspended from coaching, the FBI arrested Gardner, 38, on a federal child sexual abuse images charge. But his disciplinary case has still not been resolved by SafeSport, which handles sex-abuse cases in Olympic sports.
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