Aly Raisman files lawsuit against USOC, USA Gymnastics over handling of Larry Nassar
Claudia Fragapane – Achilles
Older, powerful female gymnasts are more at risk. ☹️
Black Gymnasts in History
The Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics Foundation has been profiling black gymnasts on their blog.
Corrinne Wright to Simone Biles.
USA verification at LSU
Depending on routine readiness and the individual athlete’s goal, gymnasts were allowed to do modified routines at the verification.
Good idea.
Here are some examples.
Click PLAY or watch Jade Carey’s Floor on YouTube. (Moors on a separate tumbling line.)
Click PLAY or watch Jordan Bowers’s Beam on YouTube. (Rest before dismount.)
(via FloGymnastics)
Kerry Perry message
Click PLAY or watch it on Facebook.
Read an expanded version online: Finances, Sponsors, Litigation, National Team Training Center.
If USAG is to be saved, I’d call this a small step forward. The words are good if not yet backed up with enough action.
There are doubters. John Nichols points out Perry attended only a portion of one day of victim statements.
related – Jessica O’Beirne from GymCastic was invited to LSU for Elite verification. She’s been the most vocal critic of USAG through the Nassar scandal. I see this as real evidence of transparency. An even bigger step forward.
Lindsey Vonn trains Pommels
American Cup this weekend
Read Spencer’s take.
AMERICAN CUP PREVIEW
Yul MOLDAUER and Allan BOWER will be very competitive in the AA at home, I’m predicting.
U.S. National Team contenders are worried
From the biggest sexual abuse case in sports, the institution of U.S.A. Gymnastics has emerged tattered and disgraced: censured for systematically failing to report predators, accused of fostering abusive training environments and condemned by many of its own stars.
But there are still gymnasts training 30 to 40 hours a week in pursuit of lifelong dreams …
U.S. Gymnasts Worry That Program’s Chaos Will Ruin Their Chances
first male victim to join lawsuits against Nassar
Jacob Moore, who competes for University of Michigan, is joining federal civil suits against Nassar, Michigan State and USA Gymnastics.
2021 Artistic Worlds Copenhagen
Before this 50th edition, the next Worlds will take place in Doha (QAT) in 2018, from 25 October to 3 November, and in Stuttgart (GER) in 2019 (4-13 October).
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