Category: ethics

USAG streaming service – FlipNow

Though I never paid for FloGymnastics, at first glance this looks tempting. It’s available worldwide, unlike many of the NCAA streams.

First up is February 24-27:Β Winter Cup**,Β Elite Team Cup, Nastia Liukin Cup** (men’s and women’s artistic).

BUT β€”Β I’ll want to see what percentage of revenue actually gets to the athletes first.

FlipNow monthly subscriptions are available for $9.99 …

USA Gymnastics members will receive a 25% discount off the basic annual rate, with members making a one-time payment of $74.99 ($6.24/month).

Non-members’ annual subscription rate is a one-time payment of $99.99 ($8.33/month).

Proceeds benefit USA Gymnastics’ athlete support programs, including direct athlete financial support, travel, medical, mental health services, National Team camps and other programs. …

Inside Gymnastics

Derrian Gobourne’s “Black Girl Magic” NFT collection

β€œI am excited to launch my Black Girl Magic NFT Collection on the Legacy League platform.

Not only do their values align with mine, there is no better time do it.” said Gobourne in reference to Black History Month.

β€œIt’s time to celebrate, congratulate and pay honor and tribute to all of my sisters who have given so much to this sport and I want the world to see them.” …

Forbes

Her series will also feature other black female gymnasts, including Ananda Brown, Jada Glen and Aria Brusch from Auburn, Hannah Joyner from Rutgers, Amari Celestine from Missouri, Sekai Wright from UCLA and Kyla Bryant from Stanford. …

Pitt’s Pride leo

This is awesome. A work of art.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

Ukraine & Russia hug it out

Olympic medal winners Oleksandr Abramenko and Ilia Burov celebrate their success with warm embrace at medal ceremony.

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach called for political leaders “around the world” to be inspired by the athletes’ “example of solidarity and peace”. …

BBC

5 Parkettes coaches under investigation

… The notices of allegations against the five coaches were issued Feb. 10 and are not public, but a source with knowledge of the accusations provided details that they involve physical and emotional abuse primarily between 2013 and 2016 reported by at least 11 gymnasts. …

Parkettes owners and 3 coaches named in SafeSport allegations. Former athletes claim weight-shaming and sexual harassment at elite gymnastics club

IOC must set minimum Olympic age

It’s stupid and inconsistent to have different age requirements for the Olympic sports.

Especially if you can’t enforce Olympic rules for athletes under age-16.

By Paris the minimum age should be 16. Or even age-18.

The Recent Rise of Child Athletes in the Olympic Games

TOKYO, JAPAN – AUGUST 04: Bronze medalist Sky Brown (age 13) of Team Great Britain (right), Gold medalist Sakura Yosozumi of Team Japan (center) and Silver medalist Kokona Hiraki (age 13) of Team Japan (left) pose after the Women’s Skateboarding Park Finals on day twelve of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Ariake Urban Sports Park on August 04, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

Ski Jumping Judging Bias

Ski jumping competitions involve subjective evaluations by judges from different countries.

This may lead to nationalistic bias, according to which judges assign higher scores to their compatriots.

To test this claim empirically, we exploit within-performance variation of scores from all World Cup, World Championship, and Olympic Games competitions between the 2010/11 and 2016/17 seasons. (15,000 jumps)

Our findings confirm that judges assign significantly higher scores to their compatriots. The magnitude of this nationalistic bias is significantly higher in more corrupt countries.

We do not find that judges assign significantly different scores to jumpers whose compatriots are present on the judging panel. …

March 2021 – Scandinavian Journal of Economics – Nationalistic Bias among International Experts: Evidence from Professional Ski Jumping

Most biased were the Russian judges. Judges from Finland and Norway showed no bias.

Utah 198.0 on Pride / Olympian Night

Season high.

The Utes celebrated both equal opportunity for all AND Olympians.

Opinion polling has shown an increase in support for LGBT rights in the state. A 2017 Public Religion Research Institute poll showed that 44% of Utah residents supported same-sex marriage, a significant increase from the early 2000s. …

Kamila Valieva – Olympic quads

Amazing. She twists so quickly.

I’m so sorry this historic accomplishment is being overshadowed by why her coach, Eteri Tutberidze, couldn’t prevent Kamila from taking a prohibited substance.

My second question is WHY the IOC doesn’t have a minimum age for all Olympic sports.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

good news for Gymnastics in the USA

More than half of the 18 women invited to Olympic trials in St. Louis last month (2021) were women of color.

While numbers are still low on college teams, there is progress. Black womenΒ account for nearly 10% of the scholarship athletesΒ at the NCAA Division I level, an increase from 7% in 2012.

More than 10% of USA Gymnastics membership self-identify as Black. …

Will Graves – β€˜This can be me’: Black participation rising in gymnastics (July 23, 2021)

About 12.1% of Americans are Black so the USA is getting close to equal representation in Gymnastics, an expensive sport.

Simone Biles, right, hugs Gabby Douglas after the Secret U.S. Classic