Gymnastics

10/12/2023 |  USOPC working on financial assistance for Mary Lou Retton, who remains hospitalized (USA TODAY) The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee has begun a process to send financial assistance to Mary Lou Retton, the 1984 Olympic gymnastics gold medalist whose daughter says she is “fighting for her life,” USOPC spokeswoman Kate Hartman told USA TODAY Sports Thursday morning. 

9/15/2023 |  SEC Gymnastics Championship Returns to New Orleans (SportsTravel) The Southeastern Conference will host the 2024 SEC Gymnastics Championships at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans on March 23, returning to the site of the 2019 championships where an event-record crowd of 10,505 attended the two-session competition.
“The Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation is proud to once again partner with ASM Global to bid upon and manage the 2024 SEC Gymnastics Championship in New Orleans,” said Sports Foundation President and Chief Executive Officer Jay Cicero. “The 2019 Championship was a great success, and we are excited to be given another opportunity to put SEC Gymnastics on display in South Louisiana. We look forward to creating an unforgettable experience for the universities, their student athletes and all SEC fans.”

8/30/2023 |  USA Gymnastics must allow scrutiny. Denying reporter a credential was outrageous decision. (USA TODAY) If there is one sports organization in this country that deserves every tough question that journalists can throw its way, forevermore, it’s USA Gymnastics. What that national governing body did, and didn’t do, led to the worst sexual abuse scandal in both Olympic history and American sports: the abuse of hundreds of U.S. gymnasts, including the great Simone Biles.

8/29/2023 |  University of Utah's gymnastics program under review amid emotional abuse allegations (AXIOS Sports) The University of Utah has hired a law firm to conduct an independent review of the school's celebrated gymnastics program following allegations that head coach Tom Farden mistreated student-athletes.

8/23/2023 |  USA Gymnastics wants to build a centralized training center for all disciplines by the 2028 Olympics (Associated Press (AP)) SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — USA Gymnastics is looking to centralize its national training programs before the 2028 Olympics.
President Li Li Leung said Wednesday over a dozen cities have responded to the organization’s request for an “expression of interest” in taking on the project, which would serve as the training and wellness headquarters for the organization’s various disciplines.