As the Dutch men didn’t qualify a team, the Men’s National Coach will take over WAG βΒ for now βΒ after the WAG coach, Gerben Wiersma, stepped down.
World Champions Center – 7 Elites
It ain’t bragging if you can do it.
World Champions Center βΒ the club βΒ could be competitive at Tokyo as a team. π
Georgia out of SEC Championships
Athletes tested positive. Others in quarantine due to contact tracing.
Gymnastics Canada – Culture and Coaching
UPDATE – A second webinar with the same speakers has been scheduled for March 25, 2021 at 7:00PM ET. Sign up here β or wait for the podcast version.
Gymnastics Canada hosted an excellent webinar. Dave Tilley posted the audio version to his podcast.
Click through for details.
Gretchen Kerr studies Athlete Maltreatment, a professor at University of Toronto.
Gretchen feels psychological abuse of coaches, parents, officials and athletes is much underreported.
Russia on the Rise
Elizabeth Booth put together a summary of where the Russian women’s team stands now compared with 2019.
Things are coming together perfectly for Tokyo.
Team Russia has definitely benefited by the 1-year Olympic delay.
Watch it here.
Rebeca Andrade training Bars
Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.
teen feminist empowerment
Gymnastics is one of the few domains where females are regarded as more important than males.
The opposite of American ConcussionBall.
It provides Simone Biles and other WAG influencers some power in how their lives are led.
The new Amy Poehler film MOXIE communicates some important messages for teens in 2021.
Here’s the clip that best sums up the themes.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Vanessa Ferarri has COVID
She began having Flu symptoms after the last competition.
Italy has been slow to rollout vaccines. And there’s been another surge due to new variants.
pay-per-view Gymnastics coverage?
Like many, I don’t want to pay a monthly subscription to FLOGymnastics.
But I MIGHT be tempted by pay-per-view.
Spain announced using a pay-per-view platform for their National competitions.
You could watch a meet LIVE or on replay within 72 hours.
Tickets were going for 6-8 Euros.
UPDATE – AFTER FAN PROTEST, THE FEDERATION DECIDED TO CONTINUE STREAMING FREE.
NOTE – Gymnastics Canada did not renew their contract with FLOGymnastics and will be posting a request for proposal (RFP) to find a broadcast partner.
Iowa gymnast Alex Greenwald
Recall Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida?
TheΒ deadliest high school shooting in United States history.
Iowa gymnast Alex Greenwald was there.
She writes “Just keep swimming” on her hand every competition to honour a childhood friend who was one of the 17 killed.
related – Florida gymnast finds strength, happiness, healing at the University of Iowa
