Category: safety

Anna Li resigns as USAG Athletes’ Council rep

Former U.S. national team member Anna Li has resigned from USA Gymnastics high profile Athletes’ Council amid allegations that she and her mother, Jiani Wu, have been verbally, emotionally and physically abusive to young gymnasts. …

The U.S. Center for SafeSport launched an investigation into Li and Wu on Monday and at least 11 complaints have been filed against Li and Wu ….

“Earlier today, Anna Li stepped down as an athletes’ representative on the Athletes’ Council, which the Council accepted,” Paul Ruggeri, chairman of the Athletes’ Council, said in a statement to SCNG.  “The Athletes’ Council will decide next steps regarding the vacancy.” …

SCOTT M. REID

While the investigation is in progress, Anna is still a member and eligible to participate as a judge and/or a coach. She’s judging this weekend.

Simone: USAG failed us. USOC failed us.

Simone is responding to this article:

Senate panel: Negligence by Olympic, USA Gymnastics officials enabled abuse by ex-team doctor Nassar

training Yurchenko without a Board

Gymnasts should do hundreds of progressions before introducing the Spring Board.

Click PLAY or watch one example on YouTube.

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. …

BEHIND THE WALLS: Sexual abuse in American men’s gymnastics

Katelyn’s speech at the ESPY Awards

Katelyn Ohashi has an important message. And makes it very poetically.

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

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

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.