club SafeSport recommendations

From the UK’s leading children’s charity:

  • a welfare or child protection officer who you can contact with any concerns
  • a clear procedure for complaints and concerns
  • written standards for good practice
  • effective consent and emergency processes
  • a safe recruitment process for staff and volunteers, including vetting
  • staff and volunteers are trained in safeguarding children
  • children and young people are suitably supervised (based on their age, ability, the activity and venue) by adults who are trained to care for them
  • the activity takes place in a safe environment – and there are separate changing areas for children and adults

Via Gymnasts for Change – How can parents and carers help safeguard gymnasts?

Coach in Ottawa, Canada

Nepean Corona School of Gymnastics, founded in 1972, in beautiful Ottawa, Canada is hiring coaches for our Pre-competitive and Competitive compulsory and optional JO Programs.

Coaches must have experience, be organized, have sound knowledge of long-term planning and provide competitive level coaching to athletes with a variety of skills and abilities.

Salary based on experience. Interested coaches please submit resume to PFyfe (a) coronaym.ca.

Canada will not attend PanAms

Though I feel rotten for the Canadian athletes who trained an extra year for their last shot at qualifying for Tokyo, I agree with this decision.

As you know, in recent days Canada has had the worst COVID numbers of any English speaking nation in the world.

Gymnastics Canada has made the very difficult decision to not enter teams in the upcoming 2021 Senior Pan American Championships being held in Rio de Janeiro, BRA between June 4-13, 2021 and the 2021 Junior Pan American Championships slated for Guadalajara, MEX (artistic), and Guatemala City, GUA (rhythmic) due to health and safety concerns resulting from the COVID-19 global pandemic. …

The Senior Pan American Championships were Canada’s last chance qualifier event for the Tokyo Olympic Games in men’s artistic, women’s artistic, and rhythmic gymnastics.Β …

β€œWe realize the impact these decisions have on our athletes, especially those senior athletes that have dedicated so many years to their ambition of competing at the Olympic Games,” added Moss. β€œWe will do everything we can not only to support all athletes and coaches impacted by this decision through this difficult period, but to also provide hope and opportunity moving forward towards their international goals in the future.”

Athletes and coaches did have the opportunity to appeal this decision, and GymCan went through the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC) arbitration process with these individuals to show transparency around the decision. The result of that appeal, which ruled in GymCan’s favour, was delivered to all parties on May 6th, 2021.

Gymnastics Canada

Spiethe / LR Productions meets

Interesting.

Spieth AmericaΒ is proud to announce an exclusive partnership withΒ LR ProductionsΒ for a series of gymnastics competitions, open to USA Gymnastics, NGA & AAUΒ  levels 1 – 10, and Xcel divisions.

Beginning in 2021 and continuing into 2022, Spieth AmericaΒ will be providing all equipment for the series, hosted by LR Productions.

Each competition eventΒ  will double as a fundraiser, showcased by top champion Olympic and NCAA gymnasts who willΒ  be raising money for their selected charities and foundationsΒ …

Inside Gymnastics

For Mother’s and Daughter’s Forever Our Legacy Tour With Mary Lou Retton & McKenna KelleyΒ 

Chicago, IL – November 21-23, 2021 

Richmond, VA – January 29-31, 2022 

Greenville, SC – February 4-6, 2022 

Drop It Like It’s Hot With Katelyn OhashiΒ 

Knoxville, TN – December 3-5, 2021 

Sioux Falls, SD – January 7-9, 2022 

We Are Strong With Maggie Nichols

Estes Park, CO – January 14-16, 2022 

Providence, RI – January 21-23, 2022 

Rochester, MN – February 11-13, 2022 

Salt Lake City, UT – February 24-27, 2022 

Jekyll Island, GA – March 5-7, 2022 

Maggie Nichols 2016. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

CHN Champion Lu Yufei

  1. Lu Yufei 113.697
  2. Zhang Jin 112.596
  3. Li Shijia 112.564
  4. Tang Xijing 112.097
  5. He Licheng 110.397
  6. Ou Yushan 110.165
  7. Wei Xiaoyuan 109.397
  8. Luo Rui 109.364

As I understand it, the top 8 are automatically put into the Olympic selection pool.

  1. Guan Chenchen 109.263
  2. Qiu Qiyuan 108.230
  3. Qian Xuejia 108.032
  4. Qi Qi 107.963
  5. Zhang Xinyi 106.264
  6. Zhou Ruiyu 106.065
  7. Chen Xiaoqing 104.998
  8. Zhao Jiayi 103.865

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coaches ‘selling or spoiling’ sport

Wayne Smith is one of the most thoughtful and outspoken pundits on coaching.

Coaches and Officials – more than anyone else – are directly responsible for whether your sport succeeds or fails.

Coaches and Officials can be powerful and effective advocates for all the wonderful things your sport has to offer.

And they can be just as influential in contributing to the demise and even complete destruction of your sport.

So the question is: Are your coaches and officials Spoiling Sport or Selling Sport? …

New Sport Future
photo by NontrivialMatt – coach yelling at 4yr old

Sun Wei – Pommels

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Anastasia Webb wins Honda

Congratulations.

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GBR Tokyo Uniform

Max looks serious.

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Elite Canada (Virtual) Series

I’m still confused on what’s happening with Canada vis-Γ -vis PanAm Championships.

Best score was counted in the final ranking, I believe.

Senior

  1. Ellie Black
  2. Ava Stewart
  3. Rose Woo

Junior

  1. AurΓ©lie Tran
  2. Victoriane Charon
  3. Amy Jorgensen

David Kikuchi:

β€œI’m happy with the performances – some people were ready right away, and some just came in for the first time last week, but the level has been consistently improving for everybody which has been good to see.

It is still a really tough time, and it’s been a tough year and a bit …

β€œI’m also super glad that this all worked out doing these competitions virtually because we’ve never done anything like this before. It was a lot of work to set it up and to create the rules around it and how the judging was going to work, but it’s all worked really well, and so I’m really proud of that …”

Gymnastics Canada

Next up for the women’s artistic program is the Canadian Championships which are also being held virtually.

The juniors and seniors will submit videos for β€œDay 1” of competition from May 14-16, with judging taking place on May18.

β€œDay 2” competition videos will be submitted from May 19-21, with judging taking place on May 23rd.

The novice and JO competition will take place in June with video submissions from June 14-20, and judging taking place from June 25-27.

The athletes in all gymnastics disciplines who will be nominated to the Canadian Olympic team for Tokyo 2020 will be announced on June 17th.