Because it’s 2021.
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Category: ethics
“Golden” – USA Elite documentary
The final episode in the 6-part series arrives July 21st.
It airs on PeacockTV.com. Free for those who appear to be in the USA and who have a U.S. zip code.
EXCELLENT.
The best recent documentary I can recall.
A real time look at changing Elite culture. For the better, I’d say.
Simply having Camp open to the video crew is a credit to Tom Forster and USAG. This is the kind of transparency we’ve always wanted.
I LOVE seeing regular training rather than only Instagram highlights. It’s mostly a grind. Golden shows that accurately.
I love seeing family life. Konnor’s problems, for example, and her family’s support.
I love seeing OTHER issues in their lives. Morgan’s social activism, for example.
Golden is not perfect.
Episode 3 should have explained to viewers the logic of selecting Gabby Douglas for Rio. It’s what I would have recommended. Instead, editors made it look like McKayla was personally unselected.
I was pleased they showed how misses are COMMON in training. But did we need to see DOZENS of Bar release misses? Also, I felt too many REALLY bad falls were included. Some of those could have been edited better or left out entirely.
“Golden: The Journey of USA’s Elite Gymnasts” follows Rio gold medalist Laurie Hernandez, 2017 World all-around champion Morgan Hurd, 2019 World Championships team members Sunisa Lee and MyKayla Skinner and first-year senior gymnast Konnor McClain.
The series, with hour-long episodes, follows the gymnasts over a five-month period as they train to vie for four Olympic spots …
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Konnor McClain on Golden
In the most recent episode of Golden (Peacock subscription), Konnor talks about why she made the sudden move from the club where she’d trained since age-3 to WOGA.
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message from Allan Bower
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 tested positive for meldonium
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. …
Oklahoma Gym Club – 47 COVID cases
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.
USAG MAG Team funding
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.
over-enthusiastic sport parents 😀
Simone vs Herself – July 5h
Only on Facebook Watch.
In this one Simone talks about the criminal doctor. The Ranch.
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Elvira Saadi suspended by Gymnastics Canada
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.
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