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Kaylia Nemour has released a book in French titled L’Ombre de l’or: La star des Jeux de Paris 2024 livre sa vérité, which translates to “The Shadow of the Gold: The star of the Paris 2024 Games delivers her truth“.
Published December 4, 2025, and is available for purchase, not just preorder.
Amazon ➙ available in both paperback and ebook formats on different Amazon international sites (e.g., US, Germany, Singapore, Belgium).
I’m confident Brisbane and Australia will deliver an epic Olympic Games in 2032.
The “Games vision” of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, revealed this week, does sound a little wordy, however. 😀
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
related – Germany is looking to host again in 2036, 2040 or 2044.
Be more like Raena. 😀
Betsy McNally Laouar just published her 4th book.
You Can’t Flip on Empty: Fueling the Fifth Event of Gymnastics.
Through powerful stories from nearly 300 clubs, backed by current sports science and her own lived experience as an athlete, mother of two special needs children, and coach, Betsy reveals why athletes stall, parents struggle, and coaches feel stuck when fueling is left out of the training plan.
… Betsy McNally Laouar is a NSCA-certified personal trainer, certified sports nutritionist, professional bodybuilder, author, podcaster, and former gymnast.
Mom Kris Ann Valdez explains why they did not continue our sport with their talented daughter.
Gymnastics is her favorite sport (so far), and I believe she has what it takes to be on the competition team, but why spend the next 10 or so years investing in this sport at significant financial and, to her, likely, physical and emotional costs?
Most competition teams practically live at the gym; their families must sacrifice weekends for tournaments and performances.
And more money. The class fees are just the beginning. There are also costumes, travel and competition fees.
Ask any gymnastics parent what they’ve invested in the sport, and they’ll shake their head or stutter through an answer. It ain’t cheap.
Then ask the parent if it was worth it. They often say yes. One mother told me she even took a second job to help pay for the $800+ monthly expenses …
A Gymnastics Coach’s Request For My Daughter Seemed Harmless — But What I Learned Deeply Worried Me
Hisayoshi Takahashi has been coaching in Canada for decades.
This one is inspired by books written by Professor Emeritus Kaneko Akitomo of the University of Tsukuba, who passed away on December 24, 2024.
While he was a professor at Tsukuba University, Kaneko had coached Endo Yukio, the Olympic individual all-around champion in gymnastics, and Kato Sawao, a two-time consecutive Olympic individual all-around champion.
Coach Hisayoshi Takahashi has many more books on Amazon.
This one is text only.
It’s a dense read recommended for keen Gymnastics coaches, mainly Men’s Gymnastics.
There are a number of spelling mistakes, most notably on Gymnastics skill names. Perhaps some spell checker changed some into English words.
The focus is on kinaesthesia and proprioception — what the gymnast feels and sees when learning and performing skills.
My first Japanese coach, Shiro Tanaka, did the same. It’s part of the Japanese coaching tradition.
I would say this kind of skill-based, very individual, approach is not a system.
Personally, I prefer the movement pattern approach based on biomechanics popularized by Professor Keith Russell. That’s a system. One approach for every gymnast, later personalizing technique based on body size, physical abilities, psychology, etc.
Takahashi has coached in Canada for decades and names Keith Russell and Hardy Fink as two of his influences, I should say.
That distinction made, there are certainly observations and tips that any Gymnastics coach would appreciate. Jot those down as you go.
Available only in digital format.
How to Become a Top-Class Athlete in Competitive Sports (2025)
When Hofmann died of COVID-19 in April 2020, the international gymnastics community remembered him as an innovator and mentor.
The tributes focused on his technical knowledge shared generously, on a coach “always willing and eager” to help programs worldwide.
None mentioned “The Rose.” None referenced the Stasi files or the pharmaceutical protocols. …
I attended a number of Hofmann’s coaching courses.
He was a coaches coach. Very good at planning. A proven winner. His team won no fewer than 52 medals at Olympic Games, World and European Championships.
I have no doubt that his main passion was beating the USSR.
BUT in that era of the DDR, you cooperated with the Stasi (secret police) or lost your job.
In that era of the DDR, if higher-ups told you to test new drugs on gymnasts, you did it.
I knew very little about all these new revelations — aside from the drugs he told us about at one coaching course. Some kind of steroids. They tried them on junior male gymnasts ultimately deciding that the benefits weren’t worth the risk.
Uncle Tim put together a career retrospective on Dieter Hoffman. So far as I can verify with contemporaries, it’s very accurate. Uncle Tim is a terrific researcher.
Read more …
Gymnastics-History.com – Code Name “Rose”: The Double Life of East Germany’s Head Coach
Gymnastics Coaching.com 