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Inclusive Language for Internal and External Communications
related – Stop calling women ‘girls’
Girls are age-12 and younger. Next teenagers. And finally young women.
Category: ethics
Chris Riegel accuses coach Larry Moyer
“I was sexually abused by my personal coach from 1973 to 1981, and due to the absolute failures of the USGF (USAG) and USOC, it wiped away my youth, cut short my career, and left me with wounds that never heal,” Riegel wrote in a letter to USA Gymnastics and SafeSport last October. …
Riegel is going public now out of frustration over the way USA Gymnastics handled his case both when he was a teenager and since he filed a complaint with the sport’s national governing body last fall. …
Moyer was forced out of the sport in 1993 by Mike Jacki, president of what was then called the U.S. Gymnastics Federation. Jacki confirmed the move, but the expulsion was not an official act and was never formally announced or made public, and Moyer is not listed on USA Gymnastics or the U.S. Center for SafeSport’s banned lists, something Riegel wants to change. …
Moyer recently turned 77. He lives in a red brick row house on a quiet tree-lined street next to a cemetery in Allentown, 35 miles from Reading. …
gender parity in the NCAA
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Katelyn’s speech at the ESPY Awards
Katelyn Ohashi has an important message. And makes it very poetically.
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related – Katelyn Ohashi’s ESPYs Acceptance Speech Not Only Rhymed, but It Left Us Shook
women in sport
… While four out of 10 athletes are female, just 4 percent of sports-related media coverage is devoted to them. They get only 5 percent of Sports Illustrated covers and a paltry 2 percent of airtime on ESPN’s SportsCenter.
And they’re often sexualized. …
#EqualPay for the #USWMNT
The women’s team is engaged in a gender discrimination lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation because the organization pays male players far more than female players. …
Crowd in stadium chants ‘equal pay’ after U.S. women’s soccer World Cup victory
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#WomenInSport
Congratulations USA.
Like Artistic Gymnastics, soccer is a sport in America where the female athletes are higher profile than the male. Role models.
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New Zealand club donates to FIJI & SAMOA
Avril Enslow, chief executive of the Christchurch School of Gymnastics, said the school donated the gym equipment to the Gymnastics Federation of Fiji to support the Oceania Gymnastics Union’s efforts to develop the sport in the region. …
in praise of Gymnastics volunteers
There are many, many thankless jobs to be done.
Athletes and coaches appreciate volunteers.
