Category: history

first World Cup medal for India

Bronze on Vault in Melbourne.

For someone who always saw herself as a reluctant gymnast, Aruna Reddy made history on Saturday when she became India’s first World Cup medal winner with a bronze in Melbourne. …

Narayan Reddy, her sports-mad accountant father had other plans in mind. He got her enrolled in an academy in Hyderabad as an eight-year old, but is not around to bask in his daughter’s success today, having passed away in 2010. …

“Every medal I will win is dedicated to my father,” she said. …

Times of India

She trains with Dipa.

One of her coaches, Brij Kishore, is ill.

Andreea Răducan montage

Our 2000 Olympic Champion*.

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related – Currently the Romanian President, she’s cut off funding to Drăgulescu who was out of the country filming a TV show.

another 10 for Maggie Nichols

She has nine perfect 10s already this season.

K.J. Kindler 1992 Floor

Two Arabian 1 1/4 saltos to prone!

She Blinded Me With Science.

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Her Bars is included at the end of that clip. Comanichi piked dismount

Thanks Dory.

Zamo interview

Elena Zamolodchikova was the 2000 Olympic Champion on Floor and Vault.

It was a difficult time as her father had died just months before.

Sydney was a very difficult competition where everything went wrong from the start. We were hurt and upset – we lost the team gold, made tons of mistakes. We came there for the team gold, the silver became such a tragedy for us that it was very hard to compete afterward. …

Today she’s an international judge, a coach at her old club and now head of the anti-doping at the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation.

Read the interview on gymnovosti.

Nemov’s 2010 memoir

Luba is posting a translation on gymnovosti.

… for a long time I didn’t know my father. I was already in third grade when he was released from prison. He was imprisoned when I was two years old. And after doing his time he came back to us but we didn’t stay together for a long time, perhaps, only for 1,5 years or so. Father drank and beat my mom …

This is a sad story. Then my parents got divorced. … 

FIRST CHAPTER OF FAIR PLAY BY ALEXEI NEMOV

https://twitter.com/cherity1313/status/930803996918517760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Feng.gymnovosti.com%2Ffirst-chapter-of-fair-play-by-alexei-nemov%2F

Marcia Frederick accuses coach Rick Carlson

#MeToo

More than two years since Frederick filed a formal complaint with USA Gymnastics, the sport’s national governing body, alleging sexual misconduct by Carlson the organization still hasn’t taken action against the coach. …

The USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal became public in 2011 when three women told the Orange County Register that former U.S. national team coach Don Peters had sex with three teenage gymnasts in the 1980s. Peters was banned for life by USA Gymnastics in November 2011 and removed from the sport’s Hall of Fame. Peters did not contest the ban. …

Peters was Frederick’s coach when she won her world title. Frederick said she was not sexually abused by Peters. …

Marcia Frederick, first U.S. Gymnastics world champion, shares story of abuse

If you don’t know Marcia, watch her gold medal winning Bars at 1978 Worlds.

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(via GymCastic)

D-D ready for her 42nd season at LSU

The start of her 42nd season at LSU will have her alone at the top of a list of the longest-tenured coaches in any sport in Southeastern Conference history. …

“It’s never been better,” Breaux said. “I’m so happy to be at LSU with the staff and support I have.” …

The Advocate