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Honouring Megan Marsden
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Category: Gymnastics
2020 NCAA AAI award nominees
Thirty-two female athletes are nominated for this year’s award, which is presented to the most outstanding collegiate senior female gymnast in the country. …
Last year’s finalists included Alicia Boren (University of Florida), Brenna Dowell (University of Oklahoma), Sarah Finnegan (LSU), Olivia Karas (University of Michigan), Katelyn Ohashi (UCLA), and Toni-Ann Williams (UC Berkeley).
Finnegan ultimately took home the title …
Click over to Gymnastics Now to see this year’s list.
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Spencer notes ‘significant absences‘ including Jade Degouveia, Kim Tessen, Madison Kocian, and Khazia Hislop.
Chinese gymnasts denied Melbourne World Cup
The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and the local organising committee of the Artistic Gymnastics Individual Apparatus World Cup Melbourne confirm that the Chinese team will not compete at the event which runs from 20-23 February in Melbourne, Australia.
… due to the current Australian Government’s travel restrictions relating to the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19), the Chinese delegation cannot participate …
This World Cup is an Olympic qualifier.
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Angelina, Morgan, Chen Yile – #7
It’s Not All Work
This episode features Morgan’s mom.
Angelina did some snowboarding. Designs leotards.
And Chen Yile lives, plays and trains with her sister / teammates. I love seeing Chow and his big smile in China. He brings FUN to that elite program.
Watch the full program on The Olympic Channel. (14min)
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Donte McKinney DID NOT have a 9.7 E-score
UPDATE – Looking at the tweet below I wrongly thought Donte was awarded a super high 9.7 E-score.
In fact, he was awarded 9.7 in the experimental 10.0 conversion system used at this competition. His E-score was 9.2.
Thank Dave for correcting my error.
… I’m wondering how many others will be confused on this.
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Beam hand placement drill
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Kerri Strug Biopic – ‘Perfect’
… Olivia Wilde is set to direct Kerri Strug biopic Perfect …
The film, based on the book Landing On My Feet, A Diary Of Dreams by Strug and John P. Lopez, tells the true story of the gymnast’s triumph against the odds to win Team USA’s first gold medal at the 1996 Olympics. Strug was hailed as an American hero when she completed her final vault at the Atlanta games on a badly injured ankle …
The partners will likely be hoping for a similar trajectory to well-received 2017 sports movie I, Tonya, which scored breakout box office and multiple Oscar nominations.
ex-MSU coach Kathie Klages convicted
A jury on Friday convicted a former Michigan State University gymnastics coach of lying to police when she denied that two teen athletes told her of sexual abuse by sports doctor Larry Nassar in 1997, nearly 20 years before he was charged.
Kathie Klages, 65, was found guilty of a felony and a misdemeanor in a Lansing courthouse where Nassar was sentenced more than two years ago. Klages faces up to four years in prison at her April 15 sentencing.
She is the second person other than Nassar to be convicted of charges related to his serial molestation of young women and girls under the guise of medical treatment. …
Recall that Klages continued to support Nassar during his investigation — even asking Michigan State gymnasts to sign cards of support.
related – In a parallel story, then assistant wrestling coach Jim Jordan asked his team to deny the sexual abuse of male wrestlers by team doctor Richard Strauss at Ohio State University.
Stauss committed suicide in 2005 after being accused of abusing at least 177 students.
Riley McCusker training with Jade Carey
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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