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The American Gym offers some tips on safe pit construction:
… Training pits should be longer and wider than competition matting requirements. Since gymnasts have not yet mastered the skills they will be performing, like they would in competitions, they need a larger margin of safety …
We see it EVERY competition …
Gymnasts competing skills on to hard mats that they’ve obviously rarely done on to competition mats.
It’s dangerous.
Coaches should do a better job of simulating the competition landing in training.
The best I’ve ever seen was T&T coach Tammy Stephenson. She trained landings on to very high, very soft surfaces for most of the year. Prior to a competition she alternated layers of matting stiffened with sheets of plywood.
Age-77.
Valentina Rodionenko told the media today that her husband had another test and this time it came back negative:
… We’re prepared to do a third test as well. …
“We will stay home, the quarantine is until April 15th. …
… Rodionenko said she hopes they’ll be able to go back to Round Lake after the team’s quarantine is over:
“Returning to Novogorsk is out of the question now. We hope to go back to our native Round Lake after the quarantine, if they’ll allow us, if they’ll open the training center. It will depend on our management. Swimmers and fencers are in the same boat.”
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Andrei Rodionenko, the head coach of the Russian national artistic gymnastics team, has tested positive for COVID-19.
Valentina Rodionenko said that after the national team gymnasts and staff were tested, two tests came back positive – for Andrei Rodionenko and one of the gymnasts.Later, it became known that the gymnast who tested positive is Sergey Naidin, a 2016 junior European champion on pommel horse. …
The ‘Rule of Two’ should continue ONLINE, of course.
Any electronic communication to young athletes should be copied to parents, at least.
Communication between one coach and one athlete should be banned.
The year after the Olympics as the World Games is something like an Olympics for non-Olympic disciplines.
Good decision. But athletes now have to decide whether or not to train for the additional year.
Luba:
While many gymnasts around the world had their training disrupted or stopped completely due to COVID-19, for some time, it looked like Russian gymnasts would be able to keep training as usual.
However, yesterday, it was announced that Round Lake, the center where the national team trains and lives, will be closing alongside many other training centers around the country.
According to Valentina Rodionenko, the national team is still not giving up their training plans and the monthly camp will go as planned. Since the athletes will not be able to live at Round Lake, they will stay at Novogorsk, at the training center that houses the rhythmic gymnastics national team.
…since Novogorsk does not have an artistic gymnastics gym, the gymnasts will still have to commute to Round Lake every day to train there. Round Lake is about 30 minutes away from Novorgorsk by car. …
gymnovosti – DALALOYAN: I’D BE HAPPIER IF I COULD SPEND THIS TIME WITH MY FAMILY
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Valentina Rodionenko:
“Round Lake is our home, we’re not going out. What does it matter where we stay – in self-isolation [at home] or at the training center? …”
Artur Dalaloyan:
“There weren’t any major changes.
The only thing was the increased number of prophylactic measures – to rub hands with alcohol more often. Everywhere – at the entrance to the dorms, at the canteen entrance, at the gym entrance – they put special devices that you can use to disinfect your hands and anything you want, even feet.
At the entrance to Round Lake, they put medics who are checking the body temperature of anyone who enters with contactless thermometers that are now used everywhere …”
Q: Is the training center locked down. Or you can leave it and come back?
A: “You can leave. You just need to put your name down in a journal and when you come back – check your body temperature and tell about how you are feeling. …”
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Dear Members of Congress
We are children’s fitness facility coaches, vendors, owners in your districts and states, who directly work with the children in each of your jurisdictions.
In the face of the rapid spread of COVID-19, we are very concerned that our youth sport business industry may not survive this pandemic or the resulting economic downturn. Lawmakers are rightly focused on sending immediate aid and support to our most vulnerable businesses and workers. We are a vulnerable group so vitally important within our community – we hope and pray we are included in the conversation.
We represent the over 200,000 employees of approximately 4,000 children’s fitness facilities …
… we are now fighting for our survival. …
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