Women’s NCAA Gymnastics booming

introducing Rope Climb

For more ideas, check out a VIDEO put together by a group of coaches in 2008.

confetti at a Gymnastics meet?

Great idea. 😀

#respect for the IOC

Though I disagree with the decision to possibly, maybe allow some athletes from Russia and Belarus to perhaps in some-way compete the Paris Olympics — I have to admire whomever wrote this clarification for them.

They answer the hard questions one-by-one without waffling.

That said, the best decision would be to ban those athletes from Paris if Russia does not withdraw by a preassigned date.

There have been precedents in the past when you have excluded complete teams from the Olympic Games, like South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s.

The exclusion of South Africa was based on UN sanctions. Apartheid was also practised in South African sport. These UN sanctions applied to all walks of life. The IOC followed the United Nations with this decision. …

Do the current deliberations mean the IOC will allow athletes with a Russian and Belarusian passport at the Olympic Games Paris 2024?

This is premature. No decision has been taken on the participation of athletes with a Russian or Belarusian passport at the Olympic Games Paris 2024. The topic under discussion is about their participation in international competitions in Asia in the forthcoming summer sport season. …

Who will be responsible for determining whether a Russian or Belarussian athlete actively supports the war? What are the criteria to determine this?

Currently, an exploration of a primary concept for conditions of participation is underway. No decision has been taken. What the details could look like will have to be worked out and decided on. …

What will happen in the case of athletes from Russia and Belarus who have already missed out on qualification?

Some qualification events in several sports have already taken place. The IOC will not ask IFs to adapt their qualification systems retroactively to allocate additional quota to athletes with a Russian or Belarussian passport that have missed out on qualification opportunities due to the war. …

What if an athlete expresses support for the Russian invasion before or during the Olympic Games?

As outlined in the primary concept for conditions of participation, only athletes who fully respect the Olympic Charter would participate. Such behaviour is not compatible with the Olympic Charter. …

First, only those who have not acted against the IOC’s peace mission by actively supporting the war in Ukraine could compete. …

#1 disqualified in all of Russia should be Nagorny.

Read the statement for yourself.

celebrating Black History Month

Denver record attendance

Women’s College Gymnastics is getting more and more popular. It’s been a terrific start to the NCAA season.

NCAA Coach Well-Being Study

In the profession of Gymnastics coaching, getting to the NCAA can be your career highlight. Salaries of the top College coaches are the highest in the world.

BUT there is plenty of media scrutiny and pressure to deliver results.

A short survey of 6,000 head and assistant NCAA coaches conducted in spring 2022 answered many interesting questions on student mental health and coach well-being under a changing college athletics landscape.

The results are available here:

U.S. National Girls & Women in Sports Day

Feb 1st.

National Girls and Women in Sports Day appreciates the achievements of female coaches and athletes and acknowledges the role of sports to help unlock the boundless potential of women.

Details.

sexual offences in CAN sports

It’s been four years since a CBC News and Sports investigation revealed more than 200 coaches — mostly at the local level — had been charged with a sexual offence against athletes under their care since 1998. Since then, CBC has found 83 other coaches have been charged or convicted across multiple sports, provinces and jurisdictions. …

Calls for an independent inquiry into safe sport — which, broadly, guards against everything from sexual abuse, poor parental behaviour, bullying, concussions and toxic culture — have recently grown louder. The latest came from dozens of Canadian sport scholars who, in a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, cited “widespread reports of sexual, physical and psychological abuse of athletes throughout the nation’s sport system.”

Gymnasts have been among the most vocal. …

Canada spends millions on safe sport. It’s not going where it’s needed

This story is part of a continuing investigation by CBC News and Sports into abuse in amateur sport in Canada. Read all of the reporting here.

Switch Leap + Switch Leap series

Olivia Courtney.

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