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The Olympic gold medalist slammed the idea that gymnasts should stop wearing leotards in an effort to stop sexual assaults. Aly Raisman on why leotards shouldn't be banned from gymnastics Skip to ...
The German gymnastics team is attracting attention for more than its gravity-defying moves at this year's Olympic games in Tokyo.In an effort to prevent the sexualization of their bodies and the ...
Along with the rest of the U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics team, she was featured on the cover of the July 18, 2012, issue of Sports Illustrated. This was the first time an entire Olympic gymnastics team had been featured on the magazine's cover. [116] Raisman posed nude in the 2015 ESPN The Magazine's Body Issue.
Since 1990, USA Gymnastics has kept a list of people permanently banned from coaching for sexual abuse and other reasons. The list includes Robert Dean Head, a USAG coach in Kentucky who in 1992 pled guilty to raping a 12-year-old, and Don Peters, the national coach for the 1984 Olympic team, who was banned in 2011 after two former gymnasts accused him of sexual abuse.
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the Code of Points used to score performances and regulates all aspects of elite international competition.
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Since Aly Raisman took a step back from gymnastics in January 2020, she’s had some extra time to focus in on her search for self-love. One thing that’s played a big part in her progress?
The following gymnastics skills are banned by at least some gymnastics associations: Korbut flip [2] [3] Thomas salto [3] Roll-out [3] The following gymnastics skills have reduced score due to safety concerns: the Biles (BB dismount) [4] Yurchenko double pike [5]