Věra Čáslavská documentary

Don’t Look Away

Czech gymnast Věra Čáslavská won a total of 22 international titles between 1959 and 1968 including seven Olympic gold medals, four world titles and eleven European championships.

Čáslavská was known for her outspoken support of the Czechoslovak democratization movement and her opposition to the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.

At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, she took this protest to the world stage by quietly looking down and away while the Soviet national anthem was played during the medal ceremonies for the balance beam and floor exercise event finals.

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documentary – Becoming Sam Phillips

Becoming Sam Phillips debuts March 13, 2025.

The decorated gymnast made his name as the only out athlete at Nebraska, a Big Ten school known for its iconic athletic program. But as the flagship university of a deep red state, Phillips quickly found the school wasn’t interested in promoting inclusion, or the visibility he was trying to create for the LGBTQ+ community. …

The athletic department refused to share Phillips’ viral video for National Coming Out Day, and his coaches’ feelings about queer advocacy ranged from apathy to downright contempt. Phillips says one of the team’s volunteer coaches proudly called himself a homophobe, while deriding Phillips with an insulting nickname: “brown sugar.” …

Gymnast Sam Phillips opens up about his new doc & being the only out athlete at a Big Ten school

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Marta Pihan-Kulesza documentary

Polish gymnastics power couple Marta Pihan-Kulesza and Roman Kulesza have long been accustomed to having their performances watched, analyzed and scrutinized by television and online viewers around the world.

“Marta and Jagna: Vol. 1,” a documentary film released at the end of 2023 and now viewable on YouTube and other platforms, offers a candid, unfiltered perspective on the married Olympians – and their young daughter Jagna, a budding gymnast with unintentionally scene-stealing charm and alertness. …

IG – Polish Olympian Marta Pihan-Kulesza enlightened as focus of “Marta and Jagna: Vol. 1” documentary film

You can watch 1st part of the documentary on YouTube. Free.

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marketing ‘The Fall Guy’

The Fall Guy (2024) is loosely based on the 1980s TV series about stunt performers.

… scheduled to be released in the United States and Canada by Universal Pictures on May 3, 2024.

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Ryan Gosling has a number of stunt doubles.

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Sofia Boutella training for Kora – Rebel Moon

Sofia Boutella (age-41) has a background in Rhythmic and dance.

Moved to hiphop dance battles.

Then acting.

Here she is training for the lead in the sci-fi film Rebel Moon.

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Andrew Garfield (Spiderman) was a Gymnast

Andrew Garfield played Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), The Amazing Spider-Man (2014), and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).

A gymnast and swimmer as a kid.

June Preisser – acrobatic dance

June Preisser was an American actress, popular in musical films during the late 1930s and through the 1940s, many of which capitalized on her skills as an acrobat.

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