Utah gymnasts – free Jeep Grand Cherokee lease

Those who worried NIL was a slippery slope, were right.

  • Every student-athlete from those three sports โ€” womenโ€™s gymnastics, and menโ€™s and womenโ€™s basketball โ€” will have the opportunity of receiving a free lease on either a 2024 Jeep Grand Cherokee L Limited Edition or a 2024 Ram 1500 Big Horn Night Edition truck.
  • That is different than the football NIL opportunity announced in October in a couple different ways โ€” only scholarship football players were offered the opportunity, while this deal applies to all athletes on the gymnastic and menโ€™s and womenโ€™s basketball teams. Also, football players only had the Dodge Truck as an option.
  • Lease and insurance costs will be covered by donations to the Crimson Collective for each student-athlete.

Details – Utah gymnasts, menโ€™s and womenโ€™s basketball athletes latest to receive free vehicle lease in NIL deal

Also, … how do I transfer to Utah.โ€‚๐Ÿ˜€

Cal’s Liz Crandall-Howell interview

Like everyone, I’m a huge fan of Cal Berkeley since award winning Liz and Justin Howellย took over.

John Carney was named the WGCA Assistant Coach of the Year 2023, as well.

Certainly Cal is a contender for the Final 4 – 2024.

Listen to an excellent interview with Liz on the All Things Gymnastics Podcast.

Their gymnasts train more difficulty than they compete, in order to build confidence in their so-called easier routines.

Stella Zakharova on Russians in Paris

Stella Zakharova, now age-60, born in Odesa, Ukraine, was an Olympic and World Championship gold medalist in team competitions for the USSR.

NEW Canadian Men’s Podcast

Felix Dolci and his teammates started a new podcast you can watch and listen to on YouTube.

SUBSCRIBE to help promote the launch. It’s called “The Rise Experience”.

The Canadian men were the big surprise at Worlds 2023, finishing 4th in qualifications to send a full team to Paris. This podcast will document their Olympic preparations.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

FIG WTC Antwerp Worlds Report

2023 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Antwerp, BEL

Womenโ€™s Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee Report

fig-wag-wtc-worlds-2023-reportDownload

IOC partly complicit in Putin’s war

Ukrainian politician ะ ะพะผะฐ ะ“ั€ะธั‰ัƒะบ posted this image on Facebook.

He’s not happy the International Olympic Committee decided to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete at the 2024 Olympics in Paris under a neutral flag.

It may have been first posted by Visegrรกd 24 on Twitter.

5 Rhythmic Groups qualify for Paris

From Worlds 2023 in Spain.

China
Italy
Ukraine
Brazil
France

related – 2023 in review: a year of curve balls and comebacks in Rhythmic Gymnastics

Safronov (USSR) did Kasamatsu first

And Safronov competed the Kasamatsu Vault at University Games 1973.

It was named after Shigeru Kasamatsu who competed it at 1974 Worlds.

Uncle Tim posted the details:

1973: The Menโ€™s Competition at the University Games

Ellie Black – Kasamatsu

Canada’s “Future of Sport” commission

Canadaโ€™s Minister of Sport, Carla Qualtrough, this afternoon announced a national commission to address safe-sport issues, but stopped short of calling a national inquiry.

… ย a suite of measures, including a Future of Sport in Canada Commission that will hold a summit and produce two reports during its 18-month mandate.

An independent commissioner and two special advisers will head the commission.

Among other measures announced were moving the new Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner (OSIC) and its abuse-free program out of the Sports Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC), increasing the capacity of AthletesCan, elevating Sport Canada’s athlete advisory committee to a ministerial committee, modernizing Sport Canada’s funding framework and developing a sport integrity framework, with policies around match manipulation and safeguarding children.

Toronto Star