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My thoughts are with Fred Turoff and everyone at Temple right now. 😦

I hope they can rally as did Cal.

The Board of Trustees approved a recommendation from Athletic Director Kevin Clark Friday to eliminate seven intercollegiate sports from the university’s Division I sponsorship, effective July 1, 2014.

The following sports will be cut: baseball, softball, men’s crew, women’s rowing, men’s gymnastics and men’s indoor/outdoor track & field. Approximately 150 student-athletes will be affected and nine full-time coaches will lose their jobs.

The cuts were described by officials as a culmination of the university’s long history of an underfunded athletic department despite sponsoring a relatively large number of sports. Student-athletes under scholarship are still guaranteed financial aid for the remainder of their academic tenure and will be able to transfer without sitting out a year. …

Temple News – University to eliminate seven intercollegiate sports

LIKE that photo on Facebook.

#SAVETUMG

(via Jeff Robinson)

related – Philly.com – Temple to drop 7 sports, including baseball, rowing

Update via Dvora Meyers:

… The cuts will save just $3 million of Temple athletics’ $44 million annual budget, or not much more than it costs to run one of the FBS’s worst football teams (and run it at a loss). …

Deadspin – How Temple Football Pulled Everything Down With It

Steve Butcher posted details on the job opening.

$60,000 – $65,000 (US equivalent) /yr + benefits and signing bonus of $2,000.

Send resume to directxs@logic.bm

by site editor Rick McCharles

Perfectly normal people in real life sometimes post nasty comments online. Become trolls.

Why?

I have no idea.

The worst site was YouTube. It took until Sept 2013 for Google to finally down rate the “poisonous vitriol”.

On Gymnastics Coaching comments have always been hidden from the default view. I spend time moderating those comments. Deleting SPAM comments.

On the other hand, I rarely ban anyone from making (civil) contrary statements.

TKO is still commenting, for example.

By contrast, Brigid McCarthy encourages discussion on her site:

… I love writing about this sport. I love collaborating with lots of people to produce news, stories, features, analysis of gymnastics. I also love the back-and-forth between writers and readers that goes on in the comments. Those conversations/debates/feedback sessions can be fun and handy as so many people are expert and opinionated in all areas of this sport.

I don’t even mind the arguments when people manage to keep it nice and keep it on the topic. I mean, it’s a subjective sport. Sometimes ya just gotta duke it out. And a lot of people seem to know how to do that in a meaningful, non-combative, fun way. …

She recommends some guidelines for online commenting:

1. Think before you speak.

2. Don’t be nasty when you can be constructive.

3. Don’t be narrow minded.

4. Don’t cast big judgements based on little knowledge.

5. Always remember that these people that you sit back, watch and talk about are working their guts out every single day to do what they do. They are also teenagers. And people. With feelings.

6. And most of all, REMEMBER THE LOVE that brought you here.

see the rest on … The Couch Gymnast’s Handy Guide to Commenting

The best place for “discussion” is on forums. They are set up for exactly that.

related:

• Bills Sands on Online haters

• Spanny – i’m so sorry. i fully understand if you want to beat me up. just avoid my nose.

The Couch Gymnast News Page:

Elisabet Vasileva, the Bulgarian ex-rhythmic continues to be wonderful (Thanks Sere at Gymfever!)

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

Our Olympic Silver medalist skipped Worlds, feeling burned out.

He’s back. Looking physically stronger. One of the lightest guys in the sport, watch Marcel Butterfly on Rings!

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

That was the highest Rings score in the team competition at the Stuttgart World Cup.

To contend for the AA podium in Rio you need both Rings and Pommels. Marcel should be one of the favourites in 2016.

via FIG – Rewind: Eight must-see routines from the 2013 Stuttgart World Cup

marcel-nguyen.com

South Africa did not compete at Olympic Games from 1964 to 1988, as a part of the sporting boycott of South Africa during the Apartheid era. The South African National Olympic Committee (NOC) was expelled from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1970. In 1991, as part of the transition to multiracial equality, a new NOC was formed and admitted to the IOC, and the country competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics. …

Another positive step forward brought by Mandela.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (2000)

(via Mashable)

In training.

//instagram.com/p/hhXA1-ymB1/embed/

(via Brigid Couch Gymnast McCarthy)

Gigi Khazback Farid posted a terrific 2-part interview with the wonderful Brigid McCarthy, founder of Couch Gymnast.

Gigi: Tell us about yourself

Brigid: I live in Australia, I am in my mid-thirties and I work in a couple of universities. I am a lecturer in media and communications and in sports media. I love teaching, but I also love my research work. I just finished my PhD on sports journalism and blogging.

…

Gigi: How did you come up with the blog’s name (The Couch Gymnast)?

Brigid: It was just silly- a play on the idea of the armchair sports fan/expert, as I was never a serious gymnast, but also the fact that every would-be gymnast seemed to be put in classes because they wouldn’t stop flipping off the couch!

…

Behind The Scenes Of Gymnastics Blogging: Brigid McCarthy, TCG Creator And Editor – PART 1

Gigi: If you had the chance to design a new CoP for gymnastics, what would you do?

Brigid: Fix how artistry and dance elements are awarded. That I know for sure. But then when I ask myself ‘how?’, within five minutes of thinking it out I feel compelled to put my head down on the desk and shut my eyes and moan ‘too hard’.

…
PART 2

🙂

Nick Blanton:

Males holding a ‘Back Support’ on the Balance Beam is a prerequisite for circle extension on Pommel Horse

… What other ways can Men use Women’s specific equipment (and vice versa)?

i.e. Women using Men’s Parallel Bars for support swings in order to develop casts towards Handstand.

reply on Blanton’s Gymnastics Consultancy Facebook page

Looks like Oksana Chusovitina took down the AA Champ Jossimar Calvo Moreno at the Mexican Gala. Hope he learned his lesson. There’s a reason Chuso’s survived a dozen Olympics, or so. 🙂

Uzbekistan news article:

… when she won a silver medal in Beijing, one official said that this medal should have belonged to Uzbekistan not Germany, he said.

“I hope she has forgiven us,” he added.

Why does a champion gymnast return to Uzbekistan?

(via GymCastic Episode 61)