Minnesota Gymnastics 60 Minutes

While some schools are moving mountains to get in football and basketball seasons, non-revenue generating sports are on the chopping block. …

Some colleges are testing every player and coach for the virus every day and even that hasn’t stopped outbreaks; many games have had to be canceled or rescheduled. But still, they press on.  

They do it, of course, to keep the TV money coming in from football and basketball. But at the same time, dozens of universities have been eliminating smaller “secondary” sports like gymnastics and tennis and swimming. …

Mike Burns: I think every athletic director who’s dropping programs is using the COVID pandemic as an excuse …

Shane Wiskus: NCAA Gymnastics I believe is a crucial component in preparing gymnasts for, you know, not only success for their team, but success for the United States on the world and Olympic podiums. …

Some colleges axing “secondary sports” like gymnastics and tennis as pandemic continues

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#Paris2024 🏃🏽‍♂️🤾🏻‍♀️ equality

Skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing and breaking were confirmed as additional sports proposed by the Paris 2024 Organising Committee. …

Olympic.org

Finally. An equal number of Olympic male and female competitors.

Larisa Iordache will compete Europeans

It’s been a long road back to gymnastics for Larisa Iordache, who ruptured her Achilles while warming up floor before competing in qualifications at world championships in 2017 and spent the next three years facing surgeries, rehab, and a global pandemic before finally getting to return to the floor for the first time at Romania’s national championships in November. …

Iordache Added to Euros Team After Triumphant Comeback

Chellsie’s hardest skills

Chellsie Memmel was 2005 World Champion. But she’s still working new skills today at age-32.

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Dreamcatcher trampoline

A giant dreamcatcher adorned with hundreds of Christmas lights stands on the front lawn of Wabie’s aunt and uncle’s house in Timiskaming First Nation, an Algonquin community in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec.

With about a 3.5 metre diameter, it features over 900 lights.

CBC
https://twitter.com/GordyLum/status/1334537698560802817

Men’s European Championships

Dec 9-13, Turkey

Of course the 2020 edition will always have an asterix* as the field is much smaller than usual. Many of the top nations, including Russia, are not attending due to COVID.

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Shane Wiskus on 60 Minutes

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