Spencer put together his best guesses on how the remaining Olympians will be selected.
It’s a list of meets with more questions than answers.
THE PATH TO TOKYO
Olympic qualification calendar
Category: safety
Independent review of Gymnastics Australia
… revealed “systemic risk factors” within the sport, including for child abuse and neglect, misconduct, bullying, abuse, sexual harassment and assault towards athletes.
The review, undertaken by the Human Rights Commission, was commissioned by Gymnastics Australia in August 2020 after serious complaints were made alleging mental and physical abuse of athletes. …
“Some of these risk factors also exist in many other sports, including significant power disparities between athletes and coaches and administrators,” the report, titled Change The Routine, stated. …
“There is a spotlight on the human rights of athletes around the world …
Twelve recommendations for change were made …
Australian gymnastics ‘a high-risk environment for abuse’, review finds
Read the report.
Alexis Vasquez – retirement video
She wants to move on.
College Gymnastics not everything she hoped.
Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.
Beyond Safe Sport
Gretchen Kerr, University of Toronto:
- At its core, the Safe Sport movement is about optimizing the sport experience for all—athletes, coaches, sport administrators, officials, support staff, and others in the sport environment.
- Broader societal changes have influenced the Safe Sport movement:
- Changing approaches to child and youth development
- The #MeToo/Time’s Up movements
- Increased attention to equity, diversity, and inclusion
- Highly publicized cases of athlete maltreatment
- For sport leaders, understanding the process of change (i.e., denial, resistance, exploration, and commitment) can be useful to successfully embedding Safe Sport practices within their sport.
This article addresses the next steps in the Safe Sport journey; specifically, how to move from a focus on prevention of harms to a focus on optimizing the sport experience for athletes and sport leaders alike. This journey involves a cultural change in sport—one that challenges some traditionally accepted assumptions and practices and encourages the adoption of new methods. Building on my work with National Sport Organizations (NSOs), this article has three aims:
- To show that Safe Sport extends beyond the prevention of harms to the optimization of sport experiences;
- To highlight some of the broader societal influences on Safe Sport, which are also affecting other sectors in Canada and abroad;
- To address some of the common concerns and questions about Safe Sport. …
Next Steps in the Safe Sport Journey: From Prevention of Harm to Optimizing Experiences
Dutch Federation Abuse Report
A long-awaited report commissioned by Dutch gymnastics federation KNGU into the scale and nature of abuse in gymnastics has shown that former top athletes in particular have been the victim of ‘transgressive behaviour’, meriting apologies, after care and compensation. …
The problems ranged from ‘constant threats of humiliation, insults, negative criticism, being made a fool of, intimidation, isolation and threats’ to forcing gymnasts to practice with injuries and inciting them to lose too much weight.
Read more at DutchNews.nl: Intimidation, bullying rampant in top flight gymnastics: report
Animated Simone – May 1
Music by John Legend.
She’s one of 6 Olympic athletes talking about overcoming social pressures to achieve success.
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Click PLAY or watch the full trailer on YouTube.
Oregon State’s NEW Facility
I love Oregon State. But I love them even more in this fantastic new Gym.
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Western Australian Institute of Sport investigation
… a group of 20 former WAIS gymnasts who have signed a joint submission to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s review of gymnastics culture in Australia currently underway. …
The Western Australian Institute of Sport shut down its women’s artistic gymnastics program at the end of 2016 after 28 years, following a review that prioritised WA’s contribution “to Australia’s international sporting success”.
Highland Sun
Mary-Anne Monckton and many other gymnasts and coaches have been interviewed.
I visited WAIS in Perth in the 1990s. At the time it was considered one of the top high performance programs in the world.
Sarah Voss – bodysuit
Thank-you Sarah.
It would be terrific if more gymnasts decide to make this choice in competition.
Some of the German team will be wearing them throughout Euros.
gymnasts on debilitating periods
Aly Raisman wrote about it.
Coach Veronique Sprenger has spent a lot of time in Africa. You might recall her study of acrobats in Kenya.
In a new post she talks about the challenges faced by girls and women in Ethiopia.
In the year that I have lived in Addis Ababa, I have never seen a tampon in a store.
I have talked to many women and most of them have told me that they always and only use pads and that they are scared of using internal products. That is okay, they do not have to use internal products if they don’t want to. But they should be well-informed about them and they should be available.
Moreover, if pads are not comfortable enough to do sports in, they must be offered an alternative that suits the context, such as period panties. …
Twisting Thoughts – Period
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