Category: Olympics

Suni, Jordan, Jade and Grace

Awesome.

Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, Jade Carey and Grace McCallum all competing for different College Gymnastics teams in 2022.

Blythe Lawrence:

The transition from elite gymnastics, where expression can seem stilted in routines loaded to the gills with difficulty, to the more show-it-off NCAA, where execution trumps difficulty, can be a challenge for first-years, though this year’s class may prove ahead of the curve.

Many of the biggest names of the incoming women’s crop spent the fall on Simone Biles’ “Gold Over America” tour, criss-crossing the country performing in packed arenas from Arizona to Boston.

Here’s a look at five programs about to get an injection of talent from former U.S. national team members. …

WHAT TO WATCH AS U.S. OLYMPIC GYMNASTS TURN THEIR FOCUS TO COLLEGE

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gymnasts who were NOT Olympians

All fantastic.

Elena Mukhina
Morgan Hurd
Olga Mostepanova
Rebecca Bross
Irina Pervushina
Oksana Omelianchik
Huang Huidan
Liu Tingting
Olesia Dudnik
Ana Porgras
Jana Bieger

Greatest Gymnasts Who Never Went to the Olympics

Ana Porgras

Men’s Gymnastics 2021

FIG put together a highlights post.

Olympic All-Around champion Hashimoto Daiki

World champion Zhang Boheng

Nikita Nagornyy’s triple pike

RGF first Olympic team gold in 25 years

Continental Champion Olympians

World Cup series Olympians

Italian men most successful Worlds in 50 years

And MORE.

Paris Olympics will be COOL

The river Seine will be used for Opening Ceremonies.

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Tom Forster’s reasons for leaving

He posted on Facebook.

Wants to work more directly with developing coaches, resume his Bars training camps, and get back to fly fishing.

WHO should USA hire?

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.

Tom Forster steps down

Good coach. I truly believe he tried to help the USAG Elite WAG program evolve for the better.

But communication was not great right from the start.

I hope the next National Team Director works with much more transparency. Clear, written expectations. Decisions based on performance and criteria set in advance.

Winter Olympics – pressure on China

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.

Coach Team Canada

Once again, Gymnastics Canada is advertising for a WAG National Team Head Coach.

In recent years, Ellie Black’s coach — David Kikuchi — has mostly filled that role.

Any candidate applying should have experience coaching one of the top 8 teams in the world.

Nick Ruddock was brought in as a guest coach for the most recent National Team Camp. He posted this photo on Facebook.

female Olympians – 87% of abuse

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