Category: safety

USA Gymnastics signs Nike

Finally.

Corporate sponsors are beginning to return following the disastrous way USAG handled the criminal doctor.

… Nike will serve as the Official Apparel and Footwear Partner of USA Gymnastics and the USA Gymnastics National Team, supporting athletes on their journeys to Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028 …

“As the largest partnership in USA Gymnastics history, Nike’s support is critical,” USA Gymnastics President and CEO Li Li Leung said. …

Nike Partners with USA Gymnastics to Expand Sport for the Next Generation

Deal-breaker Behaviours in Coach Education

In Canada, coaches and clinicians will be removed from official Sports Canada course for these behaviours:

  • Uses language that is racist, sexist, or demeaning
  • Allows learners to use language that is racist, sexist, or demeaning

Via the GymCan National Coaching Certification Program requirements.

“Skater Squats” for gymnasts

Preventing and reducing knee injury is highest priority.

MOST IOC nations don’t want RUS in Paris

Ukraine’s Ambassador in Azerbaijan Vladyslav Kanevskyi also spoke out at the MINEPS VII, insisting that Russia had “no right to be part of the Olympic family and remain a UNESCO member state”.

During his speech, Kanevskyi held up a picture of talented 11-year-old gymnast Kateryna Diachenko who was killed following a missile attack in Mariupol. …

Saudi Arabia ‘Sportwashing’

Human rights abuses. A leader who murders American journalists.

Saudi Arabia is throwing money at athletes in order to distract the world from their many, many faults.

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hand RIPS are injuries

Smarter gymnasts and coaches suffer less lost time due to rips.

Some are avoidable.

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Horizontal Bar – preventing griplock

Over the years I’ve seen griplock injuries 2 or 3 times. Never to one of my own gymnasts, happily.

Grip lock is a … injury that rarely occurs in gymnastics …

Athletic trainers and therapists should become familiar with the cubital grip positions that place gymnasts at high risk for grip lock injury and carefully observe performances
on the high bar in men’s gymnastics …

Grip lock injury may be prevented through education of gymnasts and their coaches …

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Juneteenth USA

At least 28 states and Washington, D.C. are legally recognizing Juneteenth as a holiday.

A step forward – equal opportunity for ALL citizens.