sorry if I gave anyone who was watching our meet a heart attack. when I punched the board on vault I felt a pop and I guess my instincts took over. unfortunately I have ruptured my achilles tendon. thank you to everyone who has already reached out ❤️
The 2019 winners are athletics coach Malcolm Arnold from Great Britain and artistic gymnastic coach Ulla Koch from Germany.
They will receive the award this Friday, 17 January 2020, during a ceremony to be held at The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, in the presence of IOC President Thomas Bach and members of the IOC Athletes’ and Athletes’ Entourage Commissions. …
Ulla has coached athletes at two Youth Olympic Games, 10 World Championships, 14 European Championships and 3 Olympic Games, and she is currently preparing for Tokyo 2020. …
Dvora Meyers’ excellent longer form articles are now available by subscription. Either $6 a month or $60 a year.
Some she posts PUBLIC and FREE so they’ll get more widely read.
Including this interview: her history, links to some of her excellent Gymnastics video documentaries, and more.
Deanna Hong, an Emmy award winner for her work with NBC Olympics during the 2016 Games, has served as the videographer for the UCLA women’s gymnastics team since 2014. …
… she shot the mega viral video of Katelyn Ohashi performing on floor exercise. You know, this one. (77+ million views)
DH: Yes, that was actually our only meet that wasn’t televised last season, so we knew going into the meet that we would be free to post as many highlights as we wanted; usually we’re limited to 1-2 minutes of highlights when meets are televised.
It’s definitely cool to be able to tell people that I shot that video, because it feels like literally everybody has seen it. I really can’t take very much credit for it though—Katelyn did all of the heavy lifting …