Tag: USA Gymnastics
THE BIG PICTURE: USA Gymnastics stays on course, makes new hires
For an organization that the United States Olympic Committee is trying to destroy, USA Gymnastics seems quite alive and even well.
New USAG chair Kathryn...
SPEED READ: Headlines from The Sports Examiner for Friday, 11 January 2019
Welcome to The Sports Examiner SPEED READ, a 100 mph (44.7 m/s) review of what happened over the last 96 hours in Olympic sport:
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LANE ONE: Ready for chaos? This might be the year for it in Olympic...
If you thought 2018 was a rough year for the Olympic Movement, in board rooms, courtrooms and the halls of the U.S. Congress, get...
LANE ONE: The top Olympic-sport stories of 2018, part II: Nassar overshadows all
As 2018 fades away, what were the top stories of the year in the Olympic Movement, both in the U.S. and worldwide? We found...
LANE ONE: U.S. House committee report indicates little change coming to the Ted Stevens...
While the Ropes & Gray Report on the Larry Nassar sex-abuse scandal has grabbed most of the national headlines, an important report from one...
LANE ONE: Larry Nassar preyed on young girls; why is gymnastics focused that way?
Larry Nassar has been convicted of crimes that will keep him in jail for the rest of his life. He sexually abused hundreds of...
LANE ONE: The Nassar sex-abuse scandal: What actually happened (and didn’t happen)?
The long-awaited report on the Larry Nassar sex-abuse scandal in gymnastics from the Boston-based Ropes & Gray law firm was made public on Monday...
LANE ONE: USOC’s reformation attempt with gymnastics is only its latest NGB adventure
The move by the United States Olympic Committee to institute revocation of recognition proceedings against USA Gymnastics drew headlines in the wake of the...
LANE ONE: USA Gymnastics to USOC: “We’re not dead yet”
You have to give credit to the USA Gymnastics Board of Directors. They aren’t giving up and they are not about to roll over...
LANE ONE: Walking in parallel, the IOC and USOC are reworking their power over...
Perhaps not unexpectedly, the International Olympic Committee and the United States Olympic Committee are walking, side-by-side, down a parallel road of de-certification of a...
THE BIG PICTURE: More pressure on the U.S. Olympic Committee in the Larry Nassar...
While most of the focus in the Larry Nassar sex-abuse scandal has been on his employer, Michigan State University, and USA Gymnastics, where he...
THE BIG PICTURE: Process to de-certify USA Gymnastics will take time
When U.S. Olympic Committee chief executive Sarah Hirshland began the process of de-certification of USA Gymnastics as the National Governing Body for the sport,...
GYMNASTICS: USA Gymnastics still alive, “remains the recognized” NGB
USA Gymnastics is in a lot of trouble, but it’s not dead yet. Board chair Karen Golz posted a message to the U.S. gymnastics...
THE BIG PICTURE: USA Gymnastics estimates $75 million cost of Nassar’s claims on insurance
There was significant reporting this past week about the filings by USA Gymnastics of its 2017 financial statements and its IRS Form 990 tax...
THE BIG PICTURE: USOC timing slaps USAG athletes right before their World Champs
The United States Olympic Committee announcement that it will begin the process to de-certify USA Gymnastics as the National Governing Body for gymnastics came...
LANE ONE: U.S. Olympic Committee drops the hammer on USA Gymnastics, but also on...
The FIG World Championships in Artistic Gymnastics finished in Doha (QAT) on Saturday. On Monday, new U.S. Olympic Committee chief executive, Sarah Hirshland, announced...
GYMNASTICS: U.S. men & women advance to World Champs Team Finals
The teams who entered the 2018 FIG World Championships in Doha (QAT) had one goal above all others: qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games...
THE BIG PICTURE: Ex-USA Gymnastics chief Steve Penny indicted
When former USA Gymnastics chief executive Steve Penny (pictured) declined to answer any questions last June from the U.S. Senate Commerce Sub-committee that was...
LANE ONE: Mary Bono resigns from USA Gymnastics; Translation: “Who needs this !@#$ ?”
The world’s no. 1 women’s gymnastics team is now part of a worldwide laughing stock as Mary Bono, hired as the interim Chief Executive...
GYMNASTICS: Biles and McCusker lead U.S. World Champs team
USA Gymnastics announced that its women’s team for the 2018 World Championships in Doha (WAT) will include Olympic and World Champion Simone Biles and...
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