One of the great personalities of American Gymnastics passed away of Lou Gehrig’s Disease complications.
Rest In Peace.
Category: history
1st triple pike in competition
Michigan wins 1st Championship
A miracle finish on Beam.
Michigan 198.250
Oklahoma 198.1625
Utah 197.9875
Florida 197.1375
April Fool’s – WOMEN competed Parallel Bars in the Olympics
Men’s Parallel Bars with one rail raised. 🙂
What modern gymnast would believe that story?
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
racial bias in sport
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
Yale coach Barbara Tonry
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.
catching up with Thema Williams
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.
RIP David Juszczyk
The death of respected judge and former Stanford coach, David Juszcyk, is a shocker.
He passed away unexpectedly on Monday, February 22, 2021.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks for donation to an education savings fund for his 14 year old son, Luca
Luca’s Ugift Code is A8E54S.
Click PLAY or watch Dave leading a coaching course on YouTube. (2005)
Simone’s mainly doing this for FUN
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
R.I.P. Vladimir Safronov
Vladimir Safronov was a Soviet Champion and World Cup medalist in 1975.
Later a professor at the Lviv State University of Physical Culture.
Vladimir Zaglada posted a remembrance on Facebook.
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