Including a Moon Walk.
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That’s from Rocker Gymnastics report on the All Japan Gymnastics Championships currently underway.
Category: Gymnastics
Olivia Dunne has millions of followers
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Simone landing Yurchenko double on pit mats
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Sandeep Kumar Pal is paralyzed
“C4-5 fracture-dislocation with quadriplegia,” is how the doctors first described his injury. Β …
… A month after he had won his medal at the Khelo India games, he had joined the national camp in New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Stadium. …
“I must have done it over a thousand times in my life. Even on the day I got injured, I performed it (Double Back on FX) Β three times cleanly,” he recalls. The fourth time though, he lost control. “My mind went blank at the top of the jump. …
How one fall turned gymnast Sandeep Kumar Pal’s life upside down
After months of rehab, he’s still regaining movement.
(via Rocker Gymnastics)
Blythe Lawrence on Aussie #AthleteAlliance
Rianna Mizzen talks about how being overworked in training contributed to her ACL tear.
βI have had some terrible experiences at major international competitions and national training camps between 2006-2012 that I wouldnβt wish on anyone,β two-time Olympian Georgia Bonora wrote on Instagram.
βThereβs training hard and helping your athlete get the most out of themselves, but then thereβs also a very fine line that can be crossed into abusive territory,β said Mary-Anne Monckton, a five-time Australian champion who won two silver medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
“A lot of girls, some 20 years later, still didnβt realise that that was abuse. None of us recognised it because it wasnβt just happening to us. It was happening to everybody.β
On July 30Β the Australian Human Rights Commission announced it would conduct an independent review, led by Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins, on gymnastics in Australia to better understand why alleged abuse went unreported.
Click through to read the well researched and detailed article in the Brisbane Times:
‘You can’t step out of line’: Medals come at a price for gymnasts
Nick Ruddock on on Athlete Alliance
Nick is eloquent in his summing up of the #AthleteAlliance revelations β gymnasts emboldened to come forward with some of their worst experiences in the sport.
How revealing past abuse can make things better for future generations.
Of course he looks at it from the coach perspective.
German gymnasts in TV ad
Andreas Toba, Elisabeth Seitz, Marcel Nguyen.
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Sunisa training Bars
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Simone’s National Gymnastics Day CHALLENGE
… she’ll wait.
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National Gymnastics Day USA
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