tumbling, tramp, diving, acrobatics, circus, cheer, dance, martial arts, X sports … and more
… The film is an intimate and unflinching portrait of grit and determination, Perfect charts the story behind Kerri Strug’s historic Olympic vault to secure America’s first ever gymnastics team gold. …
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Let’s hope they tell the TRUE story.
This will put Bela Karolyi back under the media spotlight.
Iowa men’s gymnastics ended its final season this month, meaning the 1969 Hawkeyes stand as the program’s only national championship team. …
Men’s gymnastics has been an NCAA-sanctioned sport at the UI since 1922. …
… “That’s when, for the first time that season, all of us hit our routine,” McCanless said. “There were no breaks, minor or major.” …
‘Sadly, I feel that we’re all now just ghosts’: 1969 men’s gymnastics Hawkeyes stand alone as national champions
Greg Roe posted a long, entertaining interview with legendary builder Ron Munn.
I learned a lot.
Ronnie, Pan American Games Trampoline Champ, worked with George Nissen, the co-inventor of the Trampoline.
Ronnie eventually married George Nissen’s daughter, Dagmar.
George and the famed Larry Griswald at University of Iowa constructed the first trampoline.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
One of the great personalities of American Gymnastics passed away of Lou Gehrig’s Disease complications.
Rest In Peace.
A miracle finish on Beam.
Michigan 198.250
Oklahoma 198.1625
Utah 197.9875
Florida 197.1375
Men’s Parallel Bars with one rail raised. 🙂
What modern gymnast would believe that story?
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
With Simone and Gabby as black Olympic Champions, it’s easy to ASSuME that racial bias in sport is being reduced, at least in Gymnastics.
Not so.
At each step along the athlete’s journey — from youth sports to college to the professional world — there are glaring inequities, often along racial lines. …
Throughout history, white American athletes have been afforded the opportunity to improve unimpeded while minorities have been left to scratch and claw for every inch. …
UNEQUAL PLAYING FIELD
Tonry has led Yale’s women’s gymnastics team since its inception in 1973, capturing 16 Ivy League championships after fighting for the team’s varsity status and clashing with the athletic department in the 1970s. …
With no competitions for the Bulldogs this year, Tonry reflected on her beginnings with Yale gymnastics and the nearly half-century since. …
“I think what makes Barb so successful is her confidence and her belief in everything about her program,” current Yale gymnastics captain Charlotte Cooperman ’21 said.
“She was an extremely successful athlete and brings the same mentality into her role as a coach. She believes in her gymnasts and gets her gymnasts to understand their own abilities as a team.” …
Barbara Tonry reflects on 48 years at helm
Husband Don Tonry died in 2013.
I hadn’t seen Thema since that unfortunate competition — the Rio Test Meet.
She was trying to qualify Trinidad and Tobago to the Rio Olympics.
Recall her coach on the floor — John Geddert — wasn’t happy with podium training. Trinidad replaced him and Thema with another gymnast, last moment.
I was there. Very impressed with Thema in podium training, as usual. She has fantastic physical ability.
Thema’s now age-25.
She’s featured in Olympic Channel’s HER GAME series.
Click over to watch the video. Inspiring.
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