Tag: gymnastics
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Maggie Slife is first Air Force women’s gymnast at NCAA Championships in program history
Small details have led to big results for Maggie Slife. After coming up short in qualifying for nationals a year ago, the Air Force gymnast has been focusing on the little details to improve her performance. Her shape for handstands on bars, clean dismounts, and leaps on the floor –nothing was going untouched. Focusing on…
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Adult gymnastics leagues spring to popularity in Colorado
By Jennifer Brookland, The Gazette It’s Jay Wrathall’s first gymnastics practice, and his loose yellow tank top is dropping to his shoulders as he kicks his feet skyward. Across a variety of mats and springboards coated with a fine dusting of chalk a woman is swinging her body around a set of uneven bars, while…
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The biggest winner in the Paris Olympics? The Sisterhood | Vince Bzdek
At the first modern Olympiad in Greece in 1896, an athletic woman from Syros seeking to improve her fortunes walked 6 miles to Athens in hopes of competing in the marathon. But women were barred from those first Olympics because Pierre de Coubertin, their founder, believed “an Olympiad with females would be impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic…
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Olympic athletes tell Senate panel they want a watchdog that is independent of USOC
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Saying problems with the U.S. Olympic Committee go far beyond sexual assault, a representative for athletes told a Senate committee Tuesday that they want more leverage in disputes with the USOC, including an independent inspector general to investigate complaints and assigned advocates for athletes to…