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The United States Olympic Committee on Thursday named a new chief executive to succeed Scott Blackmun, who stepped down under pressure in February as the organization faced escalating pressure in the aftermath of the Nassar gymnastics sex abuse case.
The group’s new leader is Sarah Hirshland, an executive with the United States Golf Association. …
Vault
1 Dipa Karmakar India 14.200
2 Rifda Irfanaluthfi Indonesia 13.700
3 Göksu Üctas Sanli Turkey 12.650
Bars
1 Demet Mutlu Turkey 4.6 7.950 12.550
2 Tutya Yilmaz Turkey 4.6 7.700 12.300
3 Maria Del Sol Perez Chile 4.8 7.000 11.800
Beam
1 Göksu Üctas Sanli Turkey 4.8 7.750 12.550
2 Tutya Yilmaz Turkey 5.5 6.700 12.200
3 Yuliya Inshina Azerbaijan 4.9 7.200 12.100
Floor
1 Göksu Üctas Sanli Turkey 4.8 8.250 13.050
2 Tutya Yilmaz Turkey 4.7 7.800 12.500
3 Rifda Irfanaluthfi Indonesia 4.5 7.650 12.150
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Göksu has a baby. Yep. She’s a super MOM.
Dvora Meyers linked to a video from Kamerin Moore, former elite gymnast and Larry Nassar survivor.
It’s very emotional.
Young girls need to know that they are more than just their looks. …
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Thanks Kristina.
Parents from North America are sharing their stories on the Chalk Bucket forum:
Level 3 over $5000 / year for tuition/comp fees/leo/etc. (not including travel expenses, spectator entry fees, practice leos, medical fees if she happens to get injured, and thousands of hair ties).
Level 3 $3000 / year. Same girl by level 7 $7000 / year.
Level 4. $7,000 / year. That does not include travel expenses, leotards, grips, etc….
$7-10,000 / year everything included.
Level 7-8. $7500-8000/year. This excludes any entrance fees or meet travel fees, etc. …
At level 9/10 it is very easy to spend above $20k a year
Level 10 around $25k / year
A mom at our gym put it succinctly – if you just put the money you spend on gymnastics from pre-team to Level 10/Elite, your son or daughter would have more than enough money to go to any college or university in the country by the time they turned 18. It is definitely a labor of love, there is very little ROI, even for those who get recruited to compete in college.
Read more – Give it to me straight!
One coach showed me a budget for the career of an Olympian. Cost was over a million dollars thought the parents only paid a small percentage of that.
The goal of the Rule of Two is for organizations to always have two screened and National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) trained or certified coaches with an athlete, especially a minor athlete, when in a potentially vulnerable situation. Vulnerable situations can include closed doors meetings, travel, and remote training environments.
Implementing the Rule of Two means that any one-on-one interaction between a coach and an athlete, both on and off of the field of play, must take place within earshot and view of the second coach, with the exception of medical emergencies.
One of the coaches must also be of the same gender as the athlete. …
Tony Retrosi is on the road. A long series of Congress events, Camps and competitions.
Talking to many coaches here’s one of his observations:
Because of the current climate of fear within the gymnastics community many new coaches with energy and ideas are NOT getting involved and many experienced coaches are getting out of the sport early.
Read more on GymMomentum.
I’m sensing some of that same doom and gloom in western Canada regarding the future of our sport, but it’s not nearly as severe.
If a football prospect wants to be recruited by Nebraska coach Scott Frost, he should know that the Husker staff will comb through his social media history checking for character.
“And I’ll tell you this right now — if there’s anything negative about women, if there’s anything racial or about sexuality, if there’s anything about guns or anything like that, we’re just not going to recruit you, period.
Piece of advice for you — what you put on social media, that’s your résumé to the world. That’s what you’re trying to tell the world you’re all about. That’s how you’re advertising yourself. Be smart with that stuff.”
Patti posted some details on their Gym Staff safety policies. In fact the staff recites them twice a year, just to be sure they’ve been covered.
That’s included in her 64-page handbook that all employees sign after reading.
At the 50th anniversary party for my Gymnastics club in Canada I gave a short speech / slideshow. I’d spent 23 seasons at the Gym, some of my happiest years.
At the end — wanting to see another 50 years of success — I recommended the Parents Board of Directors sell the program to an owner. In general, non-profit parent run clubs are less effectively managed than by owners.
On the other hand, non-profit clubs rarely go out of business. They have proven revenue. Existing customers. They should be able to cut costs and return to a break even budget.
Sadly, parent run Stampede City Gymnastics in Calgary, Canada just locked their doors. An attempt to sell the club fell through.
This was the Gym that produced 2004 Olympian Kylie Stone.
Watch a TV news report on the closing. They weren’t able to pay their bills.
Some of the parents are still trying to save the club.
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