Lauren Stevens (Chalk Warrior) attended the recent U.S. Gymnastics Developmental Camp.
She was impressed with the mandatory Camp chaperones.
Read Lauren’s full report – Developmental Camp culture shows promise for the future of USA Gymnastics
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GymCastic episode 363
If you blinked and missed USAG’s hiring and firing of Professor Edward Nyman as its full-time sports medicine and science director — a new position — Jessica has got you covered.
Another hire where vetting was bungled.
The podcast reviews two other recent issues:
- Terin Humphrey posting and defending a dumb, wrong meme on Facebook. Terin was was a member of the selection committee that chose women’s teams for the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.
- Mary Lou Retton‘s recent TV appearance. Recall that Mary Lou lobbied against Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act as a USAG Board Member. Happily it was signed into law February 14, 2018. Mary Lou seems still in denial that children were abused.
In addition was new CEO Li Li Leung’s wrong statement that gymnasts who saw the criminal doctor with their coach were safe. Leung did later apologize.
363: Five Is the New Four (…Is the New Five)
Happy Mother’s day
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keep girls in Sport
Fast and Female envisions a world where all girls will have positive, empowering experiences in sports.
For that to happen, they need someone right by their side! Let’s keep young girls healthy, active and ahead of the game.
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At the Heart of Gold – May 3rd on HBO
I had high hopes for new USAG CEO Li Li Leung.
She asked to be judged not on her words, but her deeds.
Shortly after that statement USA Gymnastics bungled the vetting of a first full-time director of sports medicine and science. That’s a position that would truly help the organization.
A bigger test will be how Li Li Leung handles the public response from Erin Lee Carr’s new documentary. Producers Dr. Steven Ungerleider and David Ulich began this project before the criminal doctor’s accusers came forward.
At the Heart of Gold argues that Nassar succeeded despite the many complaints against him because the people who could’ve done something about them never acted on them.
He belonged to a system that protected him and cared more about his importance in winning gold medals than the wellbeing of the girls he harmed. …
‘At the Heart of Gold’ centers survivors as it condemns those who protected Larry Nassar
Future of the U.S. Olympic Movement
Reimagining Goals Beyond Medals
Date – Wed May 22, 2019
Washington, DC
Some argue that heightened focus on medals laid the groundwork for the sexual abuses that emerged in USA Gymnastics, which has caused deep soul-searching at the USOC and the sport-specific national governing bodies (NGBs) it oversees.
What’s next for the U.S. Olympic movement, as reforms are introduced?
What if the USOC focused first and foremost on the safety and well-being of athletes while also growing opportunities for all, not just those with medal potential? …
Shannon Miller will be one of the speakers.
Cheer Dads surprise daughters with their own routine
A group of 18 dads from Edmonton, with kids in Perfect Storm Athletics, surprised their daughters with a viral cheerleading routine of their own last week.
The fathers called themselves “the weathermen” and had three secretive practices with trainers from Perfect Storm Athletics to learn the routine.
They performed the three-minute routine in front of their kids on April 14 at a showcase in Calgary called 4Cast that featured all of the Perfect Storm clubs in Alberta. …
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… before you put your kid in Gymnastics
Consider the long term consequences.
new documentary on the USA Gymnastics scandal
… a feature-length documentary for HBO.
At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal takes an in-depth look at the toxic environment within the ultra-competitive world of gymnastics that allowed for hundreds of young women and girls to be sexually abused by those they trusted most.
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Gymnastics Australia Child Protection
Gymnastics Australia is proud to present two Commitment Statements, one co-signed by the President of Gymnastics Australia, alongside the Presidents of all our member State and Territory Associations and the other co-signed by the Gymnastics Australia CEO and the Executive Directors of all State and Territory Associations.
These two documents and the actions surrounding them, solidify Gymnastics in Australia’s commitment to child safety within our sport.
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