Tag: gymnastics

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Picture Perfect

This image was taken at the Chinese National Gymnastics Training Centre in Beijing back in November 2009, after training had finished for the day. Some of the gymnasts featured will be competing in the upcoming London Olympics. What makes it stand out is that it was captured all in one take.

I first gave the girls a picture of the poses I wanted and each girl chose one. Next, I got them framed up and then set up the camera. It only took about ten minutes and three takes and we were done. The girls were so accurate in terms of their timing when performing their moves, that the process of coordinating everyone and ensuring no one overlapped was amazingly straight-forward.  – Adam Pretty

(Pictured from left to right: Tan Sixin, Sui Lu, Wu Liufang, Chen Shihua, Huang Qiushuang and Huang Huidan.  Photo Credit: Adam Pretty)

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I feel like so many of us have wanted to see professional athletes, especially Olympians, ‘swap jobs’ to see what skills would transfer. This is great because a diver and a gymnast teach each other the basics of their trade, and it’s scientifically of interest, it’s all for science, there’s nothing about fit men or accents, it’s just, it’s science, okay, it’s sports, it’s athleticism and science and

This has now gotten reblogged by at least one porn sideblog, and honestly, that’s fair

Best part of this is their excitement to share their discipline and the utter delight when the other does well in it

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Required reading for all the people who now say they care about gymnastics and gymnasts

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Iceland’s Tinna Odinsdottir was raped at a gymnastics competiton 

Former USA Gymnast Vanessa Atler Says She Developed an Eating Disorder Under Valeri Liukin: ‘I’m Still Messed Up’

Amid #MeToo, former Soviet gymnast Tatiana Gutsu accuses fellow Olympic gold medalist of rape
  (the ‘fellow gold medalist’ is owner of USAG certified gym, Vitali Scherbo)

Sexual abuse attorney ‘demands’ USOC de-certify USA Gymnastics (note the names Steve Penny, Mary Lou Retton)

Actually, just read the entire collection of IndyStar articles about this case because they are the only ones who covered every development

Katelyn Ohashi’s blog about her time at WOGA

Aly Raisman’s book

There’s tons of stuff I’m missing, so gymternet feel free to add on  

let’s see how much attention this gets from all the people claiming they care and want to help. 

Maria Olaru talking about how Belu and Bitang were abusive in her book: http://aly126.tumblr.com/post/145250130449/bits-of-maria-olarus-book-please-keep-in-mind

Alexandra Marinescu talking about how abusive Belu and Bitang were in her book: https://web.archive.org/web/20070311032747/http://www.gymworld.de/news/article/index0056.html

The story of Elena Mukhina: https://www.rt.com/sport/414212-elena-mukhina-life-story/

The story of Christy Henrich: http://articles.latimes.com/1994-07-28/sports/sp-20762_1_christy-henrich

Quotes about how abusive the Karoylis were from Emilia Eberle,
Adrian Goreac, Rodica Dunca, Ecaterina Szabo, Melita Ruhn, and Geza Pozsar: http://triplefull.blogspot.com/2008/11/karolyi-scandal-quotes-by-adrian-goreac.html

Romanian gymnast that got killed by her coach: http://articles.latimes.com/1995-03-22/sports/sp-45677_1_romanian-gymnast

Allegations of sexual abuse against Leonid Arkayev: http://rewritingrussiangymnastics.blogspot.com/2017/01/leonid-arkayev-press-allegations.html