Category: Olympics

I’m often consulted when clubs hire a new Head Coach. About 50% of the time the new hire is not better than the old. It’s the math.

Many coaches of the top teams in the world would be reluctant to consider the position.

Spencer has some advice for the USAG hiring committee. (If smart, they’d ask Simone to join that group.)

… USAG may be best served at this point by hiring an elite national team head coach—one whose purview is routine feedback, coach development, and a non-abusive culture but who is explicitly not involved in team selection—then hiring a literal Excel document to select teams, and establishing a separate injury-petition committee made up of definitely-not-the-coaches to intervene on judgement calls that a spreadsheet and extensive documentation can’t manage. …

BBS

My vote would go to K.J. Kindler. But she’d be crazy to apply.

High-performance director Tom Forster is leaving USA Gymnastics.

News from @nrarmour. https://t.co/KAD9r9Kee3

— Rachel Axon (@RachelAxon) December 9, 2021

As a volunteer for IOC and keen booster of the Olympic movement, I support this decision.

Let the athletes compete — but pressure China in every other way. That de facto dictatorship (like Russia) only responds to strength.

UK., Australia, USA and Canada have announced. I expect more to join.

Canada remains deeply disturbed by reports of human rights violations in China. As a result, we won’t be sending diplomatic representatives to Beijing for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. We’ll continue to support our athletes who work hard to compete on the world stage.

— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) December 8, 2021

World Athletics has found that female athletes were the target of 87 percent of all online abuse at this year’s Tokyo Olympics.

Female athletes were the target of 87 percent of all online abuse at this year's Olympics, according to World Athletics. https://t.co/9BHvTXkeDb

— CNN Sports (@cnnsport) November 26, 2021