Category: history

Chellsie’s Challenges – by Chellsie Memmel

Life Lessons Learned From an Olympic Gymnast Paperback – March 5, 2023

.. Follow along with Chellsie as she takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of her elite gymnastics career and the lessons she learned along the way.

Amazon

From reviews I’ve read, it sounds an inspiring read for adults, appropriate for teens and tweens, as well.

The title reminded me of Chellsie’s YouTube challenges. 😀

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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Becky Downie documentary

By the great Deanna Hong.

THIS is going to be GOOD.

Watch a teaser on Twitter.

Stanford wins AGAIN

Dynasty.

  • Stanford 422.458
  • Michigan 419.889
  • Illinois 415.59
  • Oklahoma 414.024
  • Nebraska 412.4257
  • Penn State 412.057

The big SURPRISE is how close the competition was to Stanford.

Congratulations Fred Richard and Michigan.

Adem Asil HITS Europeans AA

Six for six. Well done. Adem couldn’t be happier with his competition to win the AA.

NAT Champions – Trautman, Chiles, O’Keefe

Vault – Olivia Trautman
Bars – Jordan Chiles
Beam – Maile O’Keefe
Floor – Jordan Chiles

Vanessa Ferrari will try for Paris

Vanessa Ferrari, age-32, is a legend in our sport.

Having competed the past 4 Olympics, she’s training for #5.

Trinity’s 10.0 slam

Soviet documentary – Tatiana Groshkova, Elvira Saadi

Elvira Saadi coached in Canada. But was suspended by Gymnastics Canada late 2020, pending an investigation into abuse allegations.

She has not returned to coaching, so far as I know.

Tatiana Groshkova is age-49 as I post. She trained at Moscow Dynamo with Saadi. An astonishing gymnast — but Tatania was overshadowed by the many other stars of the late 1980s Soviet team. Training was harsh.

Click PLAY or watch a documentary on YouTube. (28min)

Derrian Gobourne reflects

“The Queen” will retire after this season.

In this interview she thinks back to her coach Laura who had faith in her switching from Cheer to Gymnastics. And much more.

Gymnastics – International Women’s Day

In 2023 one of the top Olympic women’s sports is Gymnastics. One of the few domains where males are the minority.

Increasingly, leadership has been taken over by women. A good trend.

I’d say the most successful competitive division of WAG in the world is not FIG, but rather NCAA. And Utah led the way in making the College sport so big in the eyes of the general public.

Congratulations to all the ladies in Gymnastics on #progress. And thanks to Utah for building the sport.