tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
Click PLAY or watch Alabama highlights from their win over Georgia on Facebook.
related – University of Alabama kicked out (non-gymnast) sorority student Harley Barber for posting a racist video online.
UA President Stuart Bell was extremely clear that hateful, ignorant and offensive behavior is unacceptable and unwelcome.
Week 2. Each gymnast may appear only once per week.
Here are the week 1 winners.
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
| Week 1 | Price (Stanford) – UB | Lee (UCLA) – UB | Finnegan (LSU) – UB |
From November 2017.
The interview was given right before the Bolivarian Games where Peña ended up becoming 5th in AA, making all four event finals and taking gold on vault and silver on bars and floor. …
“I’ve been training with a Cuban coach since Central American championships qualifications. And I feel that we are doing such a good job we always try to peak at the right time for the competitions, and this is like I feel, just great. Besides, I am not suffering from any injuries now”. …
YAMILET PEÑA: I ALWAYS COMPETE AGAINST MYSELF
Of the women who’ve competed Handspring Double Front since Produnova, I’d rank Oksana best, Yamilet second best. Both have the physical ability to do the vault successfully. But the landing is supremely difficult, dangerous and technical.
I doubt Peña will compete it again at the new start value.
Click PLAY or watch one of her best ones from 2012 on YouTube.
Unrelated to the Nassar case.
Lindsey Lemke is among many women and girls who started training at Twistars when she was 7-years-old. She’s currently a senior at Michigan State University. She competes on the university’s gymnastics team.
“When I was younger, I thought I was lucky to be coached by Geddert,” she said. “He was very well known and without a doubt had the best gymnastics club in Michigan.” …
… Geddert threw things at gymnasts during practice, including water bottles, blocks and pens.
Lemke also said Geddert would tell girls straight to their face that they were fat, “some who weighed only 100 – 110 pounds,” she added. …
Christy Lemke, Lindsey’s mother, said Geddert is “known” for the physical and emotional stress he puts on athletes he trains. …
Owner of popular Twistars Gymnastics Club faces abuse allegations
Related to the Nassar case …
Twistars Gymnastics and its owner files motion to dismiss in Nassar lawsuits
Remember this? 😀
Jordan Chiles, silver medalist at the 2017 US Nationals, accidentally combined a wolf turn to a triple turn to create the Wolfkino. She blessed us with this and our world will never be the same.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
(via Joe Rinaldi – Best of 2017)
USAG’s agreement to buy the facility in Sam Houston National Forest located north of Houston was announced on July 25, 2017 but later cancelled.
Simone:
“It breaks my heart even more to think that as I work toward my dream of competing in Tokyo 2020, I will have to continually return to the same training facility where I was abused,” she wrote on Twitter and Instagram.
Dr. Roy Lubit, a New York-based psychiatrist who focuses on emotional trauma in abused children, said Ms. Biles’s comment should be heeded.
“It’s a very, very bad idea to send these girls back to this training center,” Dr. Lubit said, explaining that returning to a place of abuse tends to be a powerful trigger for traumatic memories to come rushing back. …
The Center of U.S. Gymnastics’ Success Is Now a Haunted House
A former Gymnastics coach who sent more than 100 girls to be treated by Nassar was unexpectedly allow to speak on the the second day of Nassar’s sentencing in Lansing, Michigan.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
She watched him the whole time. Kyle Stephens stood in Courtroom 5 of the Veterans Memorial Courthouse, steps away from the man who molested her throughout her childhood, and she looked right at him.
Stephens decided two weeks ago to go public—to let the world know her name and see her face. But Larry Nassar needed no introduction. He has known Stephens since she was six years old …
Statements will continue all week.
To catch up on the issues I’d recommend listening to GymCastic 287: Simone and Maggie Too.
USA Gymnastics said Tuesday evening it will not pursue any money from McKayla Maroney if she speaks publicly about alleged abuse. …
Maroney, who first shared her story via Twitter, signed a nondisclosure agreement in December 2016, agreeing to stay quiet about the abuse she experienced as part of a $1.25 million settlement with USA Gymnastics, part of which she said would be used for psychological treatment. …
That’s the right thing to do … regardless of the motivations of USAG. And their lawyers.
The wrong thing to do was to enter into that agreement with McKayla in the first place.
Paul Ziert posted a response from USAG:
In 2016, McKayla Maroney’s attorney at the time, Gloria Allred, approached USA Gymnastics, requesting that the organization participate in a confidential mediation process.
The concept of confidentiality was initiated by McKayla’s attorney, not USA Gymnastics. …
The settlement was paid fully from insurance policy proceeds. The individuals in the chain of approval were: USA Gymnastics leadership (Paul Parillla, Board chair; Steve Penny, CEO); Peggy Holm, USA Gymnastics defense counsel; and a representative of the insurance carrier. …
read the full statement
To me and to everyone I’ve talked to that agreement looks like hush money.
USAG needs show evidence that the FBI directed them to stay silent. Otherwise a payoff to one athlete — especially if at cost to other victims after that payoff — is a cover-up.
Gymnastics is in the headlines everywhere.
How many parents in future are going to avoid the sport for their children, … just in case? 🙁
On the up side, children who do participate in Gymnastics should be safer. Education programs will be emphasizing coaching ethics and child safety.
The rule of two. (Or Three.) Here’s the Coaching Association of Canada version:
… calls for at least two screened and National Coaching Certification Program-certified coaches to be present with an athlete, especially a minor athlete, when the athletes is in a potentially vulnerable situation.
Of course some of the mainstream media doesn’t understand Gymnastics. But they do understand headlines.
I messaged Dr. JONATHAN LAPOOK of CBS NEWS yesterday explaining they had the headline wrong. Nassar was a doctor, never a coach.
They still hadn’t fixed their mistake as of today. No response from Lapook.
