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Centenary College, Lindenwood, Texas Woman’s University, United States Air Force Academy and host Southeast Missouri State.
Team and all-around competitions Saturday, April 10.
Finals Sunday, April 11.
Both will stream on subscription service ESPN+.
The USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Championships is open to schools with fewer than seven-and-a-half full scholarships.
In an interview, Elisabeth Seitz questioned why female gymnasts can’t wear shorts.
You know, like MEN do.
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Spencer watches more NCAA routines than anyone on earth — and he’d only award maybe three 10.0 scores this season.
Haleigh‘s vault is one.
Click PLAY or watch some of it on Twitter. The rest is out-of-frame.
As one of the biggest Olympic stars from all sports, the IOC should PAY Simone Biles not to retire. 😀
“Cecile and Laurent are from Paris so they’ve kind of guilted me into at least being a specialist and coming back,” Biles said with her trademark giggle. “But the main goal is 2021, the tour, and then we’ll have to see.”
Cecile and Laurent Landi have coached Biles since late 2017. Both were members of the French national team, and Cecile Landi competed at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. …
Olympic Channel
Congratulations.
Sadly, it sounds like Sophia Steinmeyer had an Achilles injury.
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… um. Perhaps it’s that other Minnesota gymnast, Gable Steveson — after qualifying for the Olympics in wrestling.
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Recall that PanAms were moved from USA to Brazil.
The President of the Pan American Gymnastics Union (PAGU), Naomi Valenzo, confirmed to Gymnastics Now Monday morning that the artistic, rhythmic, and trampoline Senior Pan American Championships (commonly referred to as Pan Ams) will no longer take place in the United States.
Instead, Brazil has agreed to host the events in June …
Gymnastics Now
This meet is critical in that 4 additional Olympic spots are decided from the AA. Two for men, two for women.
BUT the pandemic is worse than ever in Brazil. Over 4,000 Covid-related deaths in 24 hours for the first time. Only 8% of the population has had the first dose of any vaccine. Their President is a COVID denier who opposes any lockdown measures.
How can Brazil be safe for international travel by June?
Is there enough time on the calendar to move it again? If so, where? Canada — for example — wouldn’t allow the international travel.
I feel PanAms will soon be cancelled. And that’s a shame for those gymnasts who’ve trained the past year for one last shot at Olympic qualification.
Cordelia linked to the FIG policy:
Nearly two dozen Greek gymnasts alleged they suffered decades of abuse and neglect “bordering on torture” at the hands of their coaches, in a letter published on Wednesday.
The letter was sent this week to Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis by 22 female and male athletes, revealed by Greek daily EfSyn.
It alleged “harsh and abusive” practices dating back to 1985 included forced fasting, psychological and physical punishment and sexual harassment. …
Greece in recent months has been rocked by a wave of allegations of sexual abuse in the fields of arts, sport and education.
More than three years after the #MeToo movement surfaced in the United States, the code of silence in Greece was broken in December by a two-time Olympic sailing medallist, Sofia Bekatorou. …
Greek gymnasts allege decades of abuse by coaches
Head coach J.D. Reive will TRY to develop a club team.
University of Iowa cut Men’s Gymnastics after this season.
Arizona State’s athletics department cut men’s gymnastics in 1993, but it has operated with a self-sustaining budget since then. …
Reive said Arizona State’s success outside of its intercollegiate athletics department is the “gold standard.”
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