Hang it in the Louvre. Every dance & acro skill is performed on a spectrum from sufficient (mistake-free) to superior (flawless). This demonstrates FLAWLESS – masterful technique, exquisite execution, ideal skill shape, optimal amplitide, precise and polished form. https://t.co/R2FVcGF1KP
— Kathy Johnson Clarke, OLY ☮️💜🌏 (@kathyjohnsongym) February 21, 2024
With this kind of Putin Youth propaganda, it will be some long time before I agree with allowing Russian athletes to rejoin international competition.
This is chilling – a record of a military event at a gymnastics club in Kemerovo, Kuzbass, with young gymnasts being encouraged to handle arms. I find this upsetting; it is a corruption of sport and youth, @iocmedia@gymnastics …
Rowland “Flip” Wolfe will be recalled as the first and the only Olympic gold medalist in tumbling. He accomplished this feat at the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles. …
Had the International Gymnastics Federation recognized elements by naming them for one performer or another, a double twisting stretched back somersault might today be recalled as a “Wolfe”. He was the first to perform this element in the Olympic Games.
… Wolfe could also perform a double back. He related that he did not perform a double back in the Olympics since his coach was not a reliable spotter. He describes a pile of corrugated cardboard arranged loosely in one corner of the gym along with rags and other soft material. He would then attempt double backs into the corner!
… He had a famous teammate, Charlie Pond, who later coached at the University of Illinois.