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Will other Universities come to this decision?
I’m worried.
Outbreaks are likely at Colleges and Universities. For example, State University of New York Oneonta has had more than 700 students and faculty test positive for COVID-19. Student population is about 3000.
Michiel de Hoog writes about sport for De Correspondent in Netherlands.
Though no Gymnastics expert, de Hoog put together a very damning article on the culture of elite women’s Gymnastics.
There are some specifics overstated. No examples at all of any elite gymnasts who feel they didn’t suffer child abuse. But his main point is hard to refute.
Best read it for yourself.
Women’s gymnastics has a decades-old, reform-resistant culture of abuse. It’s hard to see a solution when child abuse isn’t an exception in women’s gymnastics – it’s the logical consequence.
Hopefully this will help BG make the cultural changes called for by many of their top athletes.
After over ten years with British Gymnastics, Jane Allen MBE is to retire as Chief Executive in December. An interim Chief Executive will be announced in the near future. …
As a positive sports parent, I make these promises to my child(ren):
I promise to listen to you if you have any concerns about your sport
I promise to learn how your club keeps you safe and what I can do to help
I promise to make sure that I set a good example and support you (and your teammates) in a positive way
There’s still hope.
Interim Coach Marie-Sophie Boggasch confirms that University of Alaska Anchorage Gymnastics will be saved if $888,000 (half in cash, half in pledges) is raised by February 15, 2021.
The Collegiate Gymnastics Growth Initiative / Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Association organized a GoFundMe: charity.gofundme.com/saveuaagymnastics
On that site, there are a couple other links that can take people to the pledge form (ideally we only have to raise half of the amount if everyone could potentially contribute the same via a pledge for next year) and also to UAA directly for donations of $1,000 or more.
About our program:
– Consistently volunteers the highest amount of hours among any UAA athletic team (last year: 554h between 18 team members)
– 2019-2020 team GPA: 3.64
– Several first-generation college students
– Broke 21 school records in the last 2 seasons
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
This is the criminal doctor episode.
Kathy Johnson is always good. But it’s Dominique who’s most eloquent of many gymnasts interviewed.
Jordyn Wieber too. She recalls that the Ranch was closed the day after Simone said she didn’t want to go back to the place of all that sexual abuse.
Olga Korbut calls her former coach a monster.
In part five of our documentary series, survivors of abuse describe the culture that allowed a USA Gymnastics physician and many dozens of other coaches and officials to take advantage of athletes, and explain how they’re using their voices and the life skills that gymnastics taught them to reclaim their sport.
You MIGHT be able to watch Defying Gravity free weekly with ads — or watch all episodes uninterrupted with YouTube Premium.
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In my mind, the Vault judges were most responsible for not checking their apparatus was set correctly.
Still, it was surprising that no coach or gymnasts figured it out sooner.
Australian champion Allana Slater hadn’t seen the falls when she began the rotation but immediately sensed something was wrong.
“Does the vault look low to you?” she said to those around her. …
You need YouTube Premium to watch the episodes 3-6.
My favourite episode of the first four.
I love seeing Grace and Jade in the Gym. Best interviews I’ve seen, so far.
Vault is the featured apparatus. They did not hold back on the terrible truth that competition landings on this event are very, very dangerous. Ellie Black and others were interviewed on injuries.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
I don’t understand why FIG has never tried to improve vault landing mats.
Alecia Ingram was a 4 year National Team member. (1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99)
At various times she trained at Cypress under Deana Parish and Debbie Kaitschuck, at Dynamo, at Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy, with Don Peters at SCATS, and at Parkettes.
In College she competed for Nebraska and University of Florida, finishing in the autumn of 2003.
Alecia recounts a LOT of bad experiences in this sad, sad post.
Suzanne Fisher, formerly of Gymnastics Canada, worked with an organization called True Sport to develop a free online module for coaching ethics.
It looks like a Powerpoint presentation where you must sometimes click to move forward. There is some video. A few slides where you must answer questions.
It takes less than 45 minutes to complete.
This is not a requirement of the National Coaching Certification Program in Canada, rather a supplementary module. Canadian coaches who complete it can be credited 3 points towards professional development requirements.
Good and important content.
Check it out here, if interested.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 