Category: Gymnastics

Rachael Denhollander – SI Inspiration of the Year

In a recent telephone interview, Denhollander said that, “unless the new organization is populated with people who are willing to stand up and say: This is wrong, we are not going to do it this way, this is not the right priority, this is not the right value systems, we’re just going to end up with another organization that repeats the same problem.” …

Rachael Denhollander Wins Sports Illustrated’s Inspiration of the Year Award

Rachael Denhollander (née Moxon; born December 8, 1984) is an American lawyer and former gymnast. She was the first woman to publicly accuse Larry Nassar …

Denhollander is a TIME 100 honoree and a 2018 Glamour Woman of the Year.

STILL trying to understand Olympic qualification

MAGnastics tried a hypothetical scenario using results of Men’s Worlds 2018 to decide most of the Olympians:

  • Team Qualification (12)
  • Individual AA Qualification
  • Individual Apparatus Qualification

Using 2018 rankings Olympians include: Adam Steele, Ireland, Tin Srbic, Croatia, Ri Se Gwang, North Korea, Eleftherios Petrounias, Greece, Lee Chih Kai, Taipei, Artem Dolgopyat, Israel, etc. 

Click through to see how it turned out:

Demonstrating Olympic Qualification Using 2018 Worlds as an Example

World Cup qualifiers are not included.

Petrounias

Men’s NCAA Preseason Coaches Poll

Oklahoma Sooners (419 points)
Stanford Cardinal (390 points)
Illinois Fighting Illini (366 points)
Minnesota Golden Gophers (353 points)
Michigan Wolverines (324 points)
Ohio State Buckeyes (323 points)
Nebraska Cornhuskers (313 points)
Penn State Nittany Lions (301 points)
Iowa Hawkeyes (267 points)
Navy Midshipmen (225 points)

The majority of teams’ seasons will get underway the weekend of January 11 (with meets like the West Point Open and Rocky Mountain Open). The conclusion of the 2019 campaign will come at the NCAA Championships in Champaign, IL on April 19-20.

Make sure to follow all of the action this season on the CGA’s social accounts: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

2019 CGA Preseason Coaches Poll

Region5USAG High Tech Camp

Click PLAY or get a glimpse on Twitter.

USAG files for bankruptcy protection

… This filing will enable USA Gymnastics to continue to support its athletes, to fully operate and meet its responsibilities to the entire membership and to expeditiously resolve the claims made by the survivors of sexual abuse perpetrated by Larry Nassar. …

The survivors’ claims against USA Gymnastics are covered by insurance previously purchased by USA Gymnastics, and the amount of available insurance proceeds available is not affected by the Chapter 11 filing. Apart from these insurance proceeds, USA Gymnastics has no other significant assets that could be used to pay claims. USA Gymnastics believes that the Bankruptcy Court is the best forum in which to implement appropriate procedures to equitably determine and allocate the insurance proceeds among claimants, allowing compensation to survivors to proceed more quickly than litigation filed in multiple courts around the country. …

USA Gymnastics files for reorganization under Chapter 11 of Bankruptcy Code

Georgia-Mae’s homage to Beth Tweddle

Georgia-Mae Fenton!

Beth’s iconic combo but with her own skill …

Daniel

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Yusuke Saito sings the Code

One way to learn the named skills in the Men’s Code of Points. 😀

Click PLAY or watch Gymnastics technique ♫ on YouTube.

Yusuke competes for Tokushu Gymnastics Club in Japan.

Dolgopyat is crazy

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John notes that Najee Richardson did this by 2009. Yes, Najee Richardson is crazy too.

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