It’s a big theme on Simone’s tour.
October 10th is World Mental Health Day.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Category: safety
Kari Traa – Girls Will Be Girls 😀
‘Athlete A’ wins Emmy
Women’s Empowerment USA
Artistic Gymnastics is one of the few areas of life not dominated by men.
… aside from the fact that MAG has 6 apparatus, WAG 4.
The Women’s March is set to return to Washington, D.C., on October 2nd.
Similar protests are scheduled around the States.
Portland filmmakers Eleven Films released #AmericanWoman – 2 minutes of pure pump-you-up adrenaline that screams ‘women’s empowerment’. …
… flashes images of powerful women, from Ruth Bader Ginsberg to Oprah to Simone Biles …
Simone vs Herself – Sept 28th
Soon after her previous video, another episode was posted on Facebook.
This starts with Simone arriving Tokyo. She was feeling ready at that moment in time.
But qualifications did not go nearly as well as she expected.
The problems with confidence began before the Team Final.
Simone does not do Yurchenko 3/2. Yet was unable to Amanar in the vault warm-up. She did Yurchenko 3/2. Cecile didn’t see it coming.
Coaches — and Simone’s parents — supported her decision to withdraw. It was the right decision.
I feel awful for Simone, however. To train 5 years and have to withdraw. Damn. That’s hard.
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
Simone vs Herself – Sept 27th
The latest episode is posted.
Simone talks about her problems getting lost while twisting. But this edit takes us up to the flight to Tokyo.
Olympic trials day 1 went very well. She was happy.
Small problems day 2. Get them over with before the Olympics.
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USAG hires chief communications officer
Good luck Jill Gear.
… responsible for driving internal and external communications, social media, branding, marketing, digital strategy, content development and media relations at USA Gymnastics.
Inside the Games
Big Shot – TV series
Big Shot is an American sports comedy-drama streaming television series.
An OLD SCHOOL NCAA Division 1 winning men’s basketball coach gets fired for throwing a chair at a ref. The only job he can get is coaching High School girls at a private school in California.
It’s standard family friendly Disney fare, appropriate for kids age-8 and up.
I only mention it here as Big Shot is another small step in the public awareness that coaches must be ETHICAL.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Simone: teach girls to set boundaries
Click PLAY or watch a TIME magazine interview on Twitter.
FBI apologizes to gymnasts
If you are a lawyer trying to defend USAG and USOPC … your argument just got significantly weaker. It’s indefensible.
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