On Saturday evening, the pair gave a $200K donation to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund and if that wasn’t a generous enough feat, check this out—the duo wrote that they gave the money, “on behalf of the heroic gymnasts of the USA Gymnastics Team.” …
John Legend and Chrissy Teigen Give $200,000 to Time’s Up on Behalf of Team USA Gymnasts
Category: Gymnastics
Oklahoma #1 week 4 NCAA rankings
Russian Teams named
Eleonora Afanasyeva (mom)
Lilia Akhaimova
Elena Eremina
Anastasia Ilyankova
Natalia Kapitonova
Viktoria Komova
Angelina Melnikova
Aliya Mustafina (mom)
Maria Paseka
Ulyana Perebinosova
Angelina Simakova
Daria Spiridonova
Maria Kharenkova
Aleksandra Schekoldina
Denis Abliazin
David Beliavskiy
Artur Dalaloyan
Sergey Eltsov
Nikita Ignatyev
Nikolai Kuksenkov
Dmitry Lankin
Andrey Makolov
Nikita Nagornyy
Vladislav Polyashov
Kirill Potapov
Kirill Prokopev
Aleksey Rostov
Ivan Stretovich
Click over to gymnovosti for commentary and a list of the reserves.
Anne Kuhm on adapting to ASU
Q: Can you sum up your first weeks on the American soil in three words?
A: Heat, joy, and stress.
Anne and ASU have been great so far this season.
Alex McMurtry’s two 10s in one night
Update – Some say those high judges were crack.
Lauren Hopkins was really angry with judge CAROL.
At the best meet of the season (sellout crowd) so far, Florida 198.15 over Oklahoma 198.125.
Click PLAY or watch her Beam on Facebook.
Click PLAY or watch her Vault on Facebook. (no stick)
McMurtry is the 10th in NCAA history to record a “Gym Slam”.
Alex McMurtry, Florida 2015-present
Maggie Nichols, Oklahoma 2017-present
Bridget Sloan, Florida 2013-16
Courtney Kupets, Georgia 2006-09
Ashley Kelly, Arizona State 2003-06
Kristen Maloney, UCLA 2001-05
Karin Lichey, Georgia 1996-99
Heather Stepp, Georgia 1990-93
Kristen Kenoyer, Utah 1990-93
Missy Marlowe, Utah 1989-92
rebuilding USAG …
Is it possible?
Who’s best to take on the now vacated Board positions?
Staff should initiate a wide talent search.
Author Karen Goeller is willing to put her name forward, for example.
covergirl Brooklyn Moors
Heart this on Instagram.
via Fans of Canadian Gymnastics
psychological counselling for Nassar victims
Paul Ziert launched a GoFundMe fundraising campaign.
The point person for any victim will be Jessica L. Steyers, LCSW, MA, who is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist specializing in the treatment of trauma. …
Ms. Steyers, a former gymnast, lives in New York City. …
related – Saving Our Survivors Facebook page
In praise of The Indianapolis Star
In April 2016, a few instances of nearby schools failing to report child abuse caught the attention of the investigations team at The Indianapolis Star. The journalists wondered how often it happened, and why.
As one of the reporters, Marisa Kwiatkowski, looked into it, a source tipped her off to a lawsuit accusing U.S.A. Gymnastics, which is based in Indianapolis, of the same behavior. Later that day, The Star put her on an airplane to Effingham County, Ga., fearful that the records would soon be sealed.
She returned with almost 1,000 pages of documents. She and two other reporters, Mark Alesia and Tim Evans, dug in. …
NYT – Belatedly, The Indianapolis Star Gets Its Due for Gymnastics Investigation
Lauren Hopkins on Nassar
A different perspective on how that con man fooled so many people for so long.
The first time I got a message from Larry Nassar, I felt honored. I was a college student just beginning what would eventually become a career writing about gymnastics. In the gym world, I was nobody. And the world-famous doctor for the U.S. women’s national gymnastics team wanted to talk to me?
… I am not a gymnast. Nassar never treated me, and every in-person exchange we shared was professional and friendly. I never wondered why he “chose” me to be his gossip buddy, but I loved all of the inside intel he gave me. And, like thousands of others, when I first heard about sexual abuse accusations against him, I thought, “Larry?! No way.” …
Larry Nassar Was A Master Manipulator, But He Didn’t Act Alone
Lauren is one of the experts being consulted by general media.
