Miah trains at World Champions Centre [Spring, TX, USA].
She recommends training with a sport psychologist to help reach your goals.
Category: safety
WADA bungled Chinese swimming dope scandal
The World Anti-Doping Agency did not — I believe — follow their own procedures correctly.
In April 2024, the Doping Investigations Unit of German broadcaster ARD released a documentary revealing the details of 28 positive tests for the banned heart-booster returned by 23 Chinese swimmers.[52].
All were declared “no fault” cases after Chinada reported to WADA that a mass contamination event had accounted for the adverse findings. …
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Coach Thierry Pellerin sentenced to 5 years
Former (Canadian) Olympic hopeful Thierry Pellerin was sentenced to five years in prison for luring young boys who were under his responsibility to the gymnastics club where he was a coach, in addition to filming them in the locker room toilets.
Journal de Quebec
He will be in the sex offender register for the next 20 years and will not be able to be in a park, school grounds or other place where it is reasonable to expect the presence of children.
Gym Kiwis Swing Straps
Gym Kiwis Swing Straps by Tumbl Trak.
Soft neoprene padding layer should reduce the number of wrist abrasions while training Safety Straps.
- Sizes: Red = Large, Black = Medium, Blue = Small
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teaching kids about UNSAFE touching
Parents of recreation gymnast needed to be educated about “spotting“, of course.
Mark Robinson v Simone Biles
North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson has been called “the GOP’s next top lunatic”.
Sure he’s homophobic, anti-semitic, an election denier, anti-science, anti-woman — BUT what made Gymnastics fans mad was when he dissed the greatest gymnast of all time.
Something tells me candidate Mark Robinson never did Gymnastics. 😀
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Aly on CBC Mornings
Promoting her new book.
comparing Tumbl Trak folding mats
I have a thousand uses for folding mats in the Gym.
Check this interesting video comparing what Tumbl Trak offers for coaches.
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Iowa is being investigated
Iowa hires investigator to look into women’s gymnastics team culture.
Head coach Larissa Libby has been placed on paid administrative leave, not as a disciplinary measure but to protect the integrity of the review, the school said in a statement.
300,000 condoms for Paris
After Tokyo 2020, with contact restrictions to stop the COVID-19 pandemic, the strict health policy of the Olympic Games is back and Paris 2024 will distribute 300,000 condoms to athletes, twice as many as London 2012, but far from the record set by Rio 2016. …
Since the 1988 Seoul Olympics, organisers have distributed condoms to raise awareness of and protection against the AIDS virus and to protect people’s health …
Inside the Games
Alcohol will not be allowed in the Olympic Village. So no French wine with dinner.
Gymnastics Coaching.com 