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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.
If the season ended today, here are the top 4 teams at Regionals. All with NQS 197 and higher.
See the constantly updated rankings on GymCastic.
After the Nassar scandals. After getting rid of coach Kathie Klages.
MSU set their program record score.
Cool vault. Stuck.
Western Michigan University.
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.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
College Gym News:
I compiled a list of all the season-ending injuries since the start of the CGN Injury Updates page in 2017. I then determined the general career outcome for each athlete, such as medical retirement, return to competition, etc. …
Of the 251 athletes that were included in this analysis, 124 athletes (～49.4%) went on to recover and return to competition, while the remaining 127 athletes (～50.6%) either medically retired, graduated before returning to competition, or left their respective teams for undisclosed reasons …
Data Deep Dive: Season-Ending Injuries
In 2004, Valeriy Goncharov became Ukraine’s second-ever male gymnast to earn Olympic gold, capturing the top spot on parallel bars in Athens. …
Just 15 when the Soviet Union crumbled, Goncharov represented Ukraine at three Olympic Games (2000-08), winning seven Olympic, World and World Cup medals in a senior career that began at the 1997 World Championships and spanned more than a decade. …
Oklahoma assistant coach Valeriy Goncharov:
One day (Rustam Sharipov) called me and said, ‘Listen, there is an open position in Oklahoma, and I think it’s a really good opportunity. It’s one of the best places I’ve worked. I’m going to text you a phone number and you should call Mark (Williams) right away.’ …
You still have a large contingent of family and friends in Ukraine, how difficult has that been this past year?
Every day it’s like half of me is here, and half of me is there, worrying about all the people I know, I care about. Nothing has really changed since the beginning, and things don’t seem to be getting better, unfortunately.
I’ve had the same routine every day for a year now. I wake up, call my friends, call my family, to know what’s going on. It is very difficult. …
Do you have any thoughts about the IOC saying it could be possible for Russian and Belarussian athletes could compete in the 2024 Olympics under a neutral flag?
You know, a recent case I just saw, Ukrainian and Russian soccer teams met by accident in Turkey, and it was a huge fight. A physical fight. Just because they saw each other in a hotel.
I think it’s difficult to imagine, in the situation we are in now, how we could compete together. How we could share the Olympic dream. I don’t know, maybe it could happen, but right now I have a lot of doubts. …
Inside Gymnastics – FROM UKRAINE WITH LOVE, PART TWO: VALERIY GONCHAROV
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