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USA Gymnastics managed to create another NEGATIVE news story selecting their most consistent AA gymnast as Olympic Team alternate — BUT not funding nor inviting him to the Worlds 2021 Trials camp.
Friends and family stepped up on GoFundMe.
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Oleg says he only once tested positive for the recently banned drug.
But was banned for 4 years.
He’ll appeal the ban.
Meldonium was added to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) list of banned substances effective 1 January 2016 because of evidence of its use by athletes with the intention of enhancing performance. …
A high prevalence of meldonium use by athletes in sport was demonstrated by the laboratory findings at the Baku 2015 European Games. 13 medallists or competition winners were taking meldonium at the time …
Meldonium use was detected in athletes competing in 15 of the 21 sports …
Most of the athletes taking meldonium withheld the information of their use from anti-doping authorities by not declaring it on their doping control forms as they should have. Only 23 of the 662 (3.5%) athletes tested declared the personal use of meldonium. However, 66 of the total 762 (8.7%) of athlete urine samples analysed during the Games and during pre-competition tested positive for meldonium. …
23 gymnasts, three staff members, and 21 of their household contacts.
The median age for infected people was 14, and the outbreak affected people aged 5 to 58.
Thankfully, investigators didn’t find any secondary spread among Oklahoma gymnasts participating at the out-of-state meets. …
How the Delta Variant Tore Through an Undervaxxed Gymnastics Center
Gymnastics Clubs have had very low risk of COVID outbreak, overall.
Discipline. Compliance. A need to protect kids.
On the other hand, Oklahoma has had comparatively low rates of vaccination. 13 people from the Club who came down with the virus who were eligible.
Even now fewer than half of Oklahoma citizens have had one dose. They don’t have herd protection with those numbers.
Read the research document.
Though the American men’s team Olympic selection was slightly less controversial and slightly more transparent than WAG, it was still criticized.
For one thing, FUNDING didn’t align with team selection they way you would have expected.
With Men’s NCAA in decline … AND questionable support for the Men’s National team, you have to be concerned for future competitiveness of the U.S. Men’s team.
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In this one Simone talks about the criminal doctor. The Ranch.
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Prominent Canadian gymnastics coach Elvira Saadi has been suspended by Gymnastics Canada since late 2020, pending an investigation into abuse allegations, the sport’s national federation confirmed to TSN. …
Gymnastics Canada expects the results of a third-party investigation of Saadi within the next month …
Canadian gymnastics coach suspended after abuse allegations
Brooklyn Moors is being coached by Dennis Vachon at the Olympics.
An anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture is a serious injury that can be career-ending in collegiate athletics.
A rerupture (recurrent rupture) after primary ACL reconstruction occurs in 1% to 11% of all athletes.
The highest rates of recurrent ACL ruptures (per 10,000 AEs) were among male football players (15), female gymnasts (8.2), and female soccer players (5.2). …
Of sports played by athletes of both sexes, women’s soccer had a significantly higher rate of recurrent ACL ruptures than men’s soccer (rate ratio, 3.8 [95% CI, 1.3-15]). …
Epidemiology of Recurrent Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries in National Collegiate Athletic Association Sports
Trinity Thomas is one of the first gymnasts who have received an offer to profit off their name, image and likeness (NIL) after the NCAA changed its rules regarding endorsements and compensation following a loss in the Supreme Court earlier this month.
Olivia Dunne, as another example, has millions of followers.
Recall Riley injured her ankle at the U.S. Classic. On competition Vault landing mats, where so many major injuries happen.
… I want to thank Brian from the bottom of my heart for showing me what it was like to be treated with kindness and respect everyday.
Because of this I will never let anyone treat or abuse me the way I was for years, he has helped me become a whole person.
He is also an incredible coach and before I hurt my ankle at classics I was doing things on floor and vault that I never thought possible for me.
My main motivation for this last year and a half while training with Brian Carey was to show all of the little gymnasts and athletes out there that you can still become the best athlete that you can be in a healthy environment. …
I didn’t have a vote. But my pick for the +one U.S. Olympic team would have been Riley. She hit 5/6 Bars routines this season and would have been a favourite for the Bars final, if not the podium.
If you want a deep dive into WHY the USA didn’t pick Riley as an alternate, listen to the June 30th GymCastic episode – Olympic Trials Party and Postmortem.
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