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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)
“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.
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.
February 23, 1996 perfect 40.0 in the all-around.
Karin Lichey Usry attended the University of Georgia from 1996–1999, and was part of both NCAA Championship teams in 1998 and 1999. …
She won the Honda Sports Award as the nations’s top gymnast in 1999.
Of course it’s impossible to compare the over-scores of today with the over-scores of that era. Karin did have a terrific night.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. It was recorded by a friend of Assistant Gym Dog Coach Doug McGavin.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Rusty Mitchell, who coached men’s gymnastics at The University of New Mexico from 1966-99, passed away over the weekend at the age of 80. …
Mitchell’s Lobos won 11 Western Athletic Conference championships out of a possible 18, and he produced 16 NCAA individual champions and 53 All-Americans. …
He was twice selected as Assistant Coach for the U.S. Olympic Men’s Gymnastic Team, Mexico City, (1968) & Munich, Germany, (1972). …
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We believe Rusty was the first to successfully compete Double Back on Floor in the Olympics. 1964 Tokyo.
At Trinity’s Gym growing up there weren’t many Black kids.
It’s been a long, strange journey for Denelle Pedrick from age-14 little-bit-of-a-train-wreck to Worlds medalist for Canada, qualifying the team to the Paris Olympics.
Listen to part 1 of the interview on Nicole Langevin’s podcast – What Makes DENELLE PEDRICK Think…” pt. 1
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She details how she learned the Pedrick by accident when Ellie and her coach were at the Tokyo Olympics. It started by working the Hecht back tuck dismount.
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Jessica Hutchinson competing a variation on her mom’s — Silvia Mitova — Olympic Floor routine.
Great forward layout 2/1 twist.
Jessica’s Grandmother was Olympic gymnast Maya Blagoeva.
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Here’s the TV version uploaded to Twitter.
Click PLAY or watch Silvia’s 1992 routine on YouTube.
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