USA Gymnastics published yesterday, that it's longtime chief operating officer has resigned, the organization, becoming the latest in a string of top officials to leave the sport's national governing body after a sex abuse scandal involving former team doctor Larry Nassar. The board of directors accepted COO Ron Galimore's resignation, the organization said in a statement, without elaborating.
Galimore, a member of the 1980 Olympic team, said in a statement provided to USA TODAY Sports late Friday: "I resigned...
The National Youth Team (U 16) of UKRAINE won on Friday traditionally competition held in the run-up to the Swiss Cup against ITALY, host SWITZERLAND and against BELGIUM with these scores: 233,300 : 231,250: 226,000: 224,700 points.
Also in the individual all-around ranking two Ukrainian boys were ahead: With Nazar CHEPURNIY at the top (78,950), followed by his compatriot Ilya KOVTUN (77,850) and the best Italian Lorenzo CASALI (77,700), who won the international friendly meet ...
Four exceptional gymnasts from Leatherhead & Dorking Gymnastics Club achieved notable success in winning the Bronze Medal at the British Gymnastics Teams Championships held at The Surrey Sports Park.
The gymnasts of the Leatherhead & Dorking Gymnastics Club (photo left) are Izzy Hilliard, Megan Splain, Evie Lamb and Maddie Dodd had a faultless competition against strong national gymnasts. Of particular note was the performance of 10 year old Maddie competing against senior gymnasts.
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Team- and All-around titles for USA -
... but Simone Biles made it exciting!
For the first time in the Middle East, the 39th WOMEN's WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS of ARTISTIC GYMNATICS 2018 in the Aspire Dome of Doha (Qatar; 27 October to 03 November) - already awarded the first Olympic tickets, for winning Team USA, Russia and China...
Nation Number ONE was the US Team with altogether 4 Gold, 2 Silver...
China with 12th Team Gold in History
♦ The Men's team final of the top eight nations, with the favorite teams from Russia, China Japan and the USA in the fight for the medals, also with Great Britain, Brasil and the Netherlands Switzerland - but without Germany, which had reached rank 10 only in the preliminary fight.
* All-around Final: Russia's Artur DALALOYAN is the new all-around world champion, with the same final score as...