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Senate panel: Negligence by Olympic, USA Gymnastics officials enabled abuse by ex-team doctor Nassar
Category: safety
training Yurchenko without a Board
Gymnasts should do hundreds of progressions before introducing the Spring Board.
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use inclusive language as much as possible
Infographic.
Inclusive Language for Internal and External Communications
related – Stop calling women ‘girls’
Girls are age-12 and younger. Next teenagers. And finally young women.
stop athletes if you suspect concussion
Signs and symptoms of concussion include:
- headache
- dizziness
- ringing in the ears
- memory loss
- nausea
- light sensitivity
- drowsiness
- depression
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Chris Riegel accuses coach Larry Moyer
“I was sexually abused by my personal coach from 1973 to 1981, and due to the absolute failures of the USGF (USAG) and USOC, it wiped away my youth, cut short my career, and left me with wounds that never heal,” Riegel wrote in a letter to USA Gymnastics and SafeSport last October. …
Riegel is going public now out of frustration over the way USA Gymnastics handled his case both when he was a teenager and since he filed a complaint with the sport’s national governing body last fall. …
Moyer was forced out of the sport in 1993 by Mike Jacki, president of what was then called the U.S. Gymnastics Federation. Jacki confirmed the move, but the expulsion was not an official act and was never formally announced or made public, and Moyer is not listed on USA Gymnastics or the U.S. Center for SafeSport’s banned lists, something Riegel wants to change. …
Moyer recently turned 77. He lives in a red brick row house on a quiet tree-lined street next to a cemetery in Allentown, 35 miles from Reading. …
Katelyn’s speech at the ESPY Awards
Katelyn Ohashi has an important message. And makes it very poetically.
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related – Katelyn Ohashi’s ESPYs Acceptance Speech Not Only Rhymed, but It Left Us Shook
#WomenInSport
Congratulations USA.
Like Artistic Gymnastics, soccer is a sport in America where the female athletes are higher profile than the male. Role models.
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spotting beginners on Giants
If you can get two spotters on a real Bar, this is my favourite.
- one spotter low — holding the wrist
- one spotter high — shaping the gymnast while they flip the wrists
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12-year-old dies after fall from climbing wall
Rhythmic gymnast Rosie Cossar
Rosie Cossar is a Canadian Olympian from the 2012 Games.
Today Rosie’s a spokesperson for the Canadian Olympic Committee in its new program to combat homophobia in sports.
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