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This is fascinating. No doubt some of the key coaches in Soviet gymnastics history remember some of these stories differently.
Round Lake dry?
Legendary coach Leonid Arkayev talks about his personal gymnastics history, the success of the Soviet team and Simone Biles in this summary of a Sport Express interview. He also shares his opinion of the current Russian gymnastics regime.
Rewriting Russian Gymnastics – Leonid Arkayev : interview with Elena Vaitsekhovskaya
Leigh Robson:
No one would deny that Canadian Olympic Trampoline hopeful Sam Sendel enjoys life. When you watch her action-packed YouTube videos, you know that she lives life to the fullest. Her talent, athletic success as a World Class Trampoline gymnast and joie de vivre makes her a role model to many. …
In conjunction with the Canadian Olympic Committee’s announcement of new initiatives to support LGTB athletes, Sam has come out publicly with her identity as a lesbian athlete. About Canada’s new LGTB initiatives, she told SBNation Outsports Magazine:
“As a gay athlete, I’m touched deeply,” Sendel said of the COC’s initiative. “I’m hoping it will help prevent the younger generations from feeling like they need to hide who they are. That was a big issue for me. I think it will really make a difference.”
The goal of the initiatives is to combat homophobia and anti-gay bias in sports. While this is a Canadian program, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently adopted new guidelines protecting athletes traveling to foreign countries to compete in the Olympics to include LGTB athletes. …
read more on Trampoline Pundit
If you appreciate Sam’s courage, send her a tweet @SamSendel.
Actually, the Canadian T&T program is very Gay friendly.
(via Leigh Robson @TrampPundit)
Now that’s a tuck position. 🙂
The IOC is boasting unanimous approval of the 40 recommendations that make up Olympic Agenda 2020.
They could go into effect for Pyeongchang 2018 and Tokyo 2020.
Ollie Williams provides some analysis:
At Monday’s extraordinary IOC session in Monaco, members rubber-stamped a series of 40 much-hyped “Agenda 2020? recommendations for change to the way the Olympics is run – some of them substantial, including:
Abolition of the 28-sport cap limiting the summer Olympic programme, accompanied by a shift to measuring the programme in terms of events, rather than sports
Host cities can propose the inclusion of specific events for their Games
Changes to make the system of bidding for the Games more flexible and, hopefully, cheaper
One such change is the ability for cities, regions and countries to mount joint bids for the Olympics (in “exceptional cases” only, mind)
A new, worldwide Olympics TV channel, carrying archive alongside some live sport with a $600m budget over seven years
Amended wording of the Olympic charter to specifically note the Games should be free of discrimination based on sexual orientation
read more – Links special: a day of change for the Olympic Games
Sports where one athlete could potentially win 8 medals (swimming, gymnastics) are vulnerable, I feel.
I’m often surprised how easily a brave, strong male gymnast can do advanced Beam tumbling.
For example, Dom Palange, a coach at UCLA coach Chris Waller’s Gym Jam.
To see more of Dom’s skills, click over to mcsmaria – Because Real Men Do Beam
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