Olympic champion Rosie MacLennan details the process by which a trampolinist gets back to 100%.
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(via Phoenix)
Category: sport medicine
Yulia Stepanova denied Rio
What!? 😦
The IOC has rejected the bid by Russian whistleblower Yulia Stepanova to compete as neutral athlete in Olympics.
Stepanova was cleared by track and field’s world governing body earlier this month to compete as a neutral athlete in the European championships and the Olympics. But the IOC did not accept the decision for the Olympics. …
The 800-meter runner provided evidence to the World Anti-Doping Agency of widespread cheating in Russia that led the IAAF to bar the country’s track and field athletes from international competition, including the Rio Games.
Stepanova, who served a two-year doping ban before turning whistleblower, is now living and training in the United States at an undisclosed location.
Without Yulia we wouldn’t know about systematic Russian doping corruption. What whistleblower will ever come forward in future?
related – No one really wants a Whistle Blower: Russia, the IOC, and Doping.
(via Nancy Armour)
IOC doping tests are a mess
The IOC should test all athletes at the Olympic Games. Announce the results.
End of story.
This breaking news is absurd. You should not FOREVER keep going back to retest old samples. 😦
The IOC said that the 30 athletes from the Games came from four sports and eight National Olympic Committees (NOC). …
A third and fourth wave of re-tests will take place throughout and after the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, with the samples being re-analysed using the latest scientific methods.
The athletes, NOCs and International Federations concerned by the positive drug tests are being informed, the IOC said, with proceedings against the athletes able to commence after B-samples are tested. …
related:
• GymCastic #206: The Russian Situation
• Should the Russian gymnasts be allowed to compete in Rio? RRG’s view
• Skating Lesson – An Invitation to Cheat: Following Up With Christine Brennan
• Skating Lesson – Russia on Thin Ice: A Conversation With Christine Brennan
Sam Mikulak – ice plunge
What Olympians do. 🙂
Gabby Jupp documentary
A serious ACL tear. Then a meniscus tear. Then a second ACL on the other leg. 😦
She’s back. British Bars Champion. A member of the 2016 European Championships silver medal team. Rio is still the goal. Good luck Gabby.
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Gabby Jupp trains at Sapphire School of Gymnastics Limited in Hemel, Hempstead and is coached by Steve Price.
anorexia survivor Kayla Dyches
Gymnastics and the vestibular system
I find that most coaches don’t know much about the vestibular system even though it’s critical to success in acrobatics sports.
Here’s the second video in Tumbl Trak’s special needs series on training the vestibular system.
… vestibular system … the sensory system that provides the leading contribution about the sense of balance and spatial orientation for the purpose of coordinating movement with balance. …
The brain uses information from the vestibular system in the head and from proprioception throughout the body to understand the body’s dynamics and kinematics (including its position and acceleration) from moment to moment. …
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(via Rec Gymnastics)
Elisa Chirino rehab update
Elisa Chirino fell badly on Bars March 25, 2014. Elisa, now 19, is a paraplegic.
A reminder for all of us to do everything possible to prevent dangerous falls.
37 DEGREES posted a lengthy documentary on her life in German. (VIDEO)
Gymnastics Coaching.com 