Category: safety

coach Fernando de Carvalho Lopes fired

Brazil.

Reporters for the “Fantastico” news show on Globo TV spoke to 40 gymnasts and former gymnasts who said Fernando de Carvalho Lopes had abused them while they were minors …

Sao Paulo state Security Department confirmed police are investigating …

Lopes denied the accusations …

… the first accusation against Lopes came in July 2016, when a 13-year-old whom Lopes coached told his parents he was being abused. The accusation resulted in Lopes being fired from Brazil’s gymnastics coaching staff, a month ahead of the Olympic Games in Rio …

ABC News

(via papaliukin)

EPIC GymCastic audiocast #301

Peng Gets a 20, Martha Gets a Zero

Over 10,000 hours long, this one is well worth listening to.

Even if you attended Nationals in St. Louis you’ll learn something new. Coaching fashion tips, in particular.

I thought NCAA Nationals judging was no worse than usual … but it looks worse than usual when you have more judges and they can’t stay in range.

Despite the CRACK, Spencer is OK with most of the final rankings: team, individual and apparatus.

I was a bit distracted celebrating Peng’s 20 and didn’t pay much attention to Saturday’s Dateline TV show with Maroney and the Karolyis. After all, it’s network TV. Normally pretty bland.

Happily Jessica and Spencer dissect the interview in detail putting statements in context and into the timeline. It doesn’t look good for USA Gymnastics.

If you don’t subscribe, you can listen streamed via their website. 

 

 

STOMPOutBullying.org

Somehow the word STOMP seems an oxymoron in an anti-bullying campaign.

Perhaps that’s intended to make the URL more memorable. #stompoutbullying

Click PLAY or watch Laurie Hernandez on Twitter.

STOMPOutBullying.org

Aly speaks from the Time 100 Red Carpet

What happened after she reported to Rhonda Faehn, the senior vice president of the women’s program?

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Gymnastics Australia child safety co-ordinator

Ms Pownall, the first child safety co-ordinator for Gymnastics Australia and Gymnastics Victoria, said part of her job would be to educate clubs, coaches, parents and gymnasts …

“One of the new laws in Vic­toria is that if anyone is aware of a child being abused, it is a criminal offence not to report it,’’ she said. …

Gymnastics Australia appoints first child safety co-ordinator

 

Karolyis deny knowledge

I haven’t seen the full interview from last night. Here’s a trailer.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

NY Yankees: Bullying is WRONG

Cassidy was bullied at school. Got no support from the Scranton School District. Facebook took her page down because she wasn’t yet age-13. ☹️

The NY Yankees reached out. #respect

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

 

gymnasts can report abuse on the next FIG website

Rebecca Whitehurst, who was on Team USA from 1995-1997, is the first victim to file suit against the International Federation of Gymnastics.

I’m no lawyer, but it seems to me FIG is quite far distant from the crimes of the USA National Team doctor.

The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) is getting ready to launch a new website that includes content about abuse and harassment. Athletes and officials will be able to initiate abuse allegations. …

“Of course there is some damage, but now we know what was happening, thanks to the gymnasts’ testimonies.

By knowing the facts, we can try to make improvements.

We cannot change the past, but we can create the future. The gymnasts’ voices have changed that future,” Watanabe tells Around the Rings.

Inside the Rings

We can expect gymnasts from nations with lax reporting standards to make use of the FIG programs. In future.

Gymnasts and Allies are ‘Great Leaders’

“The Gymnasts and Their Allies” are some of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders over the past year.

When the sentencing trial of Larry Nassar began, few people knew the former USA Gymnastics doctor’s name, much less the details of his crimes.

Then, the young women he sexually assaulted—more than 150 of them—told their stories.

Their seven days of harrowing testimony shook the world of sports and beyond. Nassar was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison. The president of Michigan State University, Nassar’s former employer, resigned, as did the board of USA Gymnastics and the CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee.

As Olympian Aly Raisman said, “We are here, we have our voices, and we are not going anywhere.”

22. The Gymnasts and Their Allies