Her coach under investigation, Riley has moved to Arizona Sunrays just months before the Tokyo Olympics.
She’s planning on Florida for the 2020–21 season.
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Simone for #nocompetition in beauty
Olympic athletes join SK-II to declare #NOCOMPETITION in beauty
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As the world’s sporting talents are gearing up for Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, a band of top athletes have joined forces to declare a battle against beauty standards that they’ve never signed up for, led by cult-favourite beauty brand SK-II.
… Biles, along with an impressive roster of fellow Olympic athletes, including world-record holder swimmer Liu Xiang and the Japan volleyball team, have joined forces with SK-II for #nocompetition, a new global campaign created to inspire women to live by their own definitions of beauty.
Biles admits that in an image-obsessed era, ignoring the pressure to measure up isn’t always easy, not even for her. “I’ve been dealing with scrutiny my whole life. I had to go through puberty in the public eye. It’s hard and social media doesn’t make it any better, but I think the campaign will help us as women to speak up about toxic beauty standards,” …
College gymnasts should be paid for name, image, likeness
Nancy Armour:
“You either get to go pro or you get to go to NCAA,” said Morgan Hurd, who has retained her eligibility despite winning the world all-around title in 2017.
“There’s no in-between, you get one or the other. But football players, they get to go to NCAA and then they get to go pro, too, and get paid.” …
Katelyn Ohashi was featured on talk shows and news programs after one of her floor routines went viral in January 2019. Politicians tweeted about her. She was featured in Rolling Stone’s “Women Shaping the Future” issue, and asked to do op-eds.
She didn’t get a dime from any of it. …
Opinion: Allow gymnasts, like football players, to cash in on name, image, likeness
Arizona at UCLA Pride Meet
# 5 UCLA to host its Pride Meet on Sunday afternoon Feb. 9th vs. #20 Arizona. 🏳️🌈
Great cause. But this promotion video is more hilarious than inspiring. 😀
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Katie Sowers – 1st woman coach in Super Bowl
San Francisco 49ers offensive assistant Katie Sowers will be the first female coach and first openly gay person in a Super Bowl.
Katie is not the first female coach, however. There were a number working with NFL teams in 2020.
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Kim Gwang Suk – Worlds Bars Champ 1991
The deserving winner.
But later it was revealed that she was underage to compete ’91 Worlds.
North Korea was banned from 1993 Worlds as penalty.
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Rosie MacLennan talks mental health
The double Olympic Trampoline champion sometimes suffers from depression.
Watch it on TSN – As Long As I Breathe
This released in conjunction with the #BellLetsTalk program.
Rosie wants anyone else suffering any kind of mental health problems to feel comfortable talking about it.
Details:
“Over the last decade, the Bell Let’s Talk Community Fund has helped more than 650 organizations on the front line of mental health care drive real change in their communities,” said Bell Let’s Talk Chair Mary Deacon.
“We welcome this year’s fund applicants and look forward to offering our support to even more exciting projects in 2020.”
former coach sentenced to 50 years
A former gymnastics coach was sentenced Friday to 50 years in prison for sexually assaulting young female gymnasts in North Texas and Oklahoma.
Skipper Crawley, 53, of Kemp, Texas, pleaded guilty …
Still pending against Crawley are 10 counts of lewd child molestation filed in Tulsa County, Oklahoma. …
student athletes celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Iran’s female gymnast at the 1964 Olympics
You might have seen this headline – Kimia Alizadeh won a bronze medal for taekwondo at the 2016 summer Olympics:
Iran’s Only Female Olympic Medalist Says She Has Defected
I support Kimia’s desire to train in an environment that better supports women in sport.
The Medal Count posted a history of Women’s Gymnastics in Iran:
The Middle East has some of the worst participation rates for women in sports. …
For a sport where its athletes wear leotards, women’s artistic gymnastics (WAG) is one of the last sports these nations would ever consider due to modesty standards …
At the 1964 Olympics Iran sent women to the Olympics for the first time in its history. …
Djamileh Sorouri was only 14 years old …
She had even been sent to the Olympics without her coach. …
In response Vera Caslavska and the Czechoslovakian team stepped in. They took Djamileh Sorouri under their wing and had the young Iranian train alongside them in the buildup to the Olympics. …
The 1964 Olympics would be both the beginning and the end of Iranian Olympic gymnastics. The country hasn’t sent a gymnast from either genders to the Olympics since. …
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