Category: safety

Fair criticism.

I work with the Pan American Gymnastics Union (PAGU) on a regular basis — and I find them often … disorganized. This despite having many of the BEST gymnasts in the world.

The 1st thing to improve is safety at major competitions.

I assume FIG certified equipment is being used. But how can a Ring break in half at a major meet? That engineering problem was solved decades ago.

PAGU inspected the venue for safety in April.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

The equipment used in this competition was from Cannice, China. It’s a subsidiary of Abéo, a French company that owns Gymnova, Jannssen-Fritssen, and Spieth. They should know what they are doing.

I feel each sporting organization should set their own qualification rules.

Transgender athletes should have equal rights to participate. But they might be added to the male or female competitions, depending on the sport.

In coed sports where men and women compete directly against one another, it wouldn’t matter.

Certainly politicians are the worst possible people to decide sport qualification rules. Rather than look at what’s fair, they’ll politicize the issue.

All kinds of right wing politicians worldwide have never met a transgender person, but find they can get hateful people to vote for them if they take a stance against.

Simone regrets she engaged with some historically unimportant athlete who’s merely trying to get attention.

We should all support the rights of transgender athletes to get the chance to compete. While severely ignoring trolls.

I wanted to follow up from my last tweets. I’ve always believed competitive equity & inclusivity are both essential in sport. The current system doesn’t adequately balance these important principles, which often leads to frustration and heated exchanges, and it didn’t help for me…

— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) June 10, 2025