tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
“Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change”, puts innovation by women and girls, for women and girls, at the heart of efforts to achieve gender equality. …
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SOME progress is being made. Close to half of the athletes in the Tokyo Olympics will be women.
“My intention with this video is to celebrate the resilience and bravery of the sexual assault survivors who have spoken out,” she said. “If the Cosby survivors had not come forward, if the Weinstein survivors had not come forward then I would not have had the opportunity to heal. That’s the power of speaking out.”
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related – Sen. Martha McSally, the first female fighter pilot to fly in combat, revealed in an emotional Senate hearing that she was raped by a superior officer in the Air Force.
A memoir by Rachael Denhollander.
The memoir will have a children’s book companion.
A number of prominent athletes have been speaking out on this issue of late.
Marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe:
“Absolutely, any transgender men or women should be able to access sport – it just depends which category.
“We need to protect female sport but we also need to protect transgender women and their rights.
“For all this to advance fairly to everybody, we have to accept it might take a while, work together and stop attacking the other side.”
Paula Radcliffe says tighter transgender rules are needed to avoid ‘manipulation’
Certainly more research needs be done on this important but rarely problematic issue.
The current level of testosterone allowed by the IOC will drop from 10 nanomoles per litre to five for the 2020 Olympics.
MOSTLY this issue is a talking point for right wing extremists who jump on every opportunity to attack minorities. The rhetoric is similar to their attacks on transgender people using public bathrooms.
related – Transgender Minnesotan powerlifter JayCee Cooper was barred from competing at a state championship due to the International Olympics Committee’s ( IOC ) guidelines.
A great move. Especially for Japn, a nation that was slow to start restricting smoking.
Organizers on Thursday announced a stringent ban on all tobacco products and vaping devices. Smoking will be banned at all indoor and outdoor Olympic and Paralympic venues, plus within all perimeter areas of the Tokyo Games.
Organizers say the prohibition is tougher than regulations for the last two Summer Olympics in London and Rio de Janeiro. …
Available April 12, 2019.
In Abused: Surviving Sexual Assault and a Toxic Gymnastics Culture, Rachel details her experiences as a competitive gymnast and the painful realities of being one of Nassar’s many victims.
With honesty and candidness, Rachel shares how the sport she loved that gave her so much—friendships, accomplishments, a college education—is also tangled in a dangerously toxic culture that needs to be fixed. In a world that was setting her up for a lifetime of recovery, she tells how faith, family, and an army of survivors made healing possible.
Rachel Haines was a two-time member of the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Team, a two-time National Champion, and a Division I college gymnast at the University of Minnesota. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in child psychology and a Master’s of Education degree in family social science. Haines lives in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, a suburb of the Twin Cities.
I was an FIG judge for decades. Always willing to justify my scores to any gymnast or coach.
Over that time in MAG we sometimes published the names of judge scores on each apparatus. Sometimes we didn’t.
Personally I feel judging would be better — more accurate — more objective — if judges names were published with the scores they awarded.
Officials in other sports are far more visible than Gymnastics.
You can see them for NCAA meets on Road To Nationals. For example, if you go to the results page for the Jan-05-2019 Oklahoma – Arkansas meet, and click on the PDF link top left, you get the official score sheet signed by the judges.
Also. Perhaps they could TRY to not to score based on reputation.
Thanks Cordelia.
A BIG red flag.
Li Li Leung should be driving over to the newspaper her first day on the job. To apologize. And pledge to work together closely in future.
Ronnie Ramos – Executive Editor IndyStar:
… With your hiring, we hope it will herald a new chapter for USA Gymnastics.
Unfortunately, the way your organization handled the announcement raises concerns we hope will be rectified. As has been the case for the last three years, USA Gymnastics specifically excluded the IndyStar from the initial media call announcing your appointment.
By excluding us, the state’s largest media organization, you excluded the people of Indianapolis.
This is meaningful in that it is indicative of an unwillingness to do what the abuse survivors — and this community — have repeatedly called for: a new path forward focused on positive change. Not a continuation of the secrecy of the past. …
IndyStar editor: An open letter to USA Gymnastics new CEO
If they want to call you crazy, fine.
Show them what crazy can do.
Feat. Simone Biles, Chloe Kim, Ibtihaj Muhammad, U.S. women’s soccer team, …
… Sam Gordon, the young girl who’s dominating football with the boys; Lisa Leslie, the first woman to dunk in a WNBA game; Becky Hammon, the first woman to be a full-time NBA assistant coach.
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When I see judging like this, I DREAM of computer video evaluation. It would be easy for software on Vault to be more accurate.
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What are the names of those judges?
related – I would have been 10.0 on a number of these YDTs.
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