#gymnastics Becky downie

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Becky Downie silverrrrrrrr! Yes!

#euros #gymnastics Becky downie

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The combined age of the WAG UB podium at the 2023 European Championships is 80 years old.

#gymnastics #alice d'amato #becky downie #elisabeth seitz

[gymnasticscoaching]

Ep. 2 Becky Downie documentary

Episode 2: Coming off of a disappointing performance at English Championships, Becky must regroup quickly if she wants to be in contention to represent GB at the 2023 European Championships. Deanna Hong: My goal is to share Becky’s incredible story as far and wide as possible. A lot of high-quality gymnastics content is geo-blocked/paywalled nowadays, which is why I’ve chosen to release this…

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. Last July, the 29-year-old British Olympian Becky Downie posted on Twitter: “Lockdown has taught me gymnasts can definitely have ‘off season’ if you stay conditioned, your skills go nowhere. ... now I look back & think of all the holidays I could have had in 20 years. Where did this myth come from!!!”

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Max Whitlock and Becky Downie return to GB team for European Gymnastics Championships on March 21, 2023 at 10:10 AM

Max Whitlock and Becky Downie return to the British team for next month’s European Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Max Whitlock and Becky Downie return to the British team for next month’s European Artistic Gymnastics Championships. Read More  BBC News – Home 

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All class from Becky Downie.

#team gb #gymnastics #Tokyo 2020 #Olympics #becky downie

[ukrfeminism]

“Top British gymnasts take a stand against ‘sexist’ leotard rules

May 1 2021, The Times

Leading British gymnasts have spoken out against “outdated and sexist” regulations concerning the leotards they can wear for competitions.

Jennifer Pinches, a retired gymnast who represented Team GB at the 2012 London Olympics, said the rules for attire at competitions were “perpetuating extremely harmful ideals”. She said it was part of a wider issue in gymnastics of policing women’s bodies and called for the International Federation of Gymnastics (Fig), which draws up the rules, to reconsider them.

Its “code of points” for women’s artistic gymnastics states outfits must be “elegant” with “proper” necklines and that leg length of the leotard must not exceed 2cm. It states it “cannot exceed the horizontal line around the leg, delineated by no more than 2cm below the base of the buttocks”.

Pinches, who co-founded the campaign movement Gymnasts for Change last year with Claire Heafford, a former elite gymnast, said such specifications were irrelevant to high-performance sport.

“That is evidence of a sport that is prioritising aesthetics over athletics,” Pinches said. “It seems ridiculous that we’re policing particularly women’s bodies to this extent in 2021. Why hasn’t this been updated?”

The rules around leotards have attracted attention this week after gymnasts on Germany’s national team wore full-length bodysuits, known as unitards, to compete at the European Championships. Unitards are permitted by the international regulations but are usually only worn for religious reasons. It is rare to see an athlete competing at the top level while wearing one.

Gymnastics in several countries including the UK, US and Australia has been hit by recent allegations of sexual, emotional and physical abuse. In the US, Larry Nassar, the former national team doctor, was jailed for life after being accused of sexually assaulting more than 200 women.

In the UK, former and current gymnasts have spoken of a culture of weight shaming in the sport and, in some cases, allege that they have suffered from eating disorders as a result of the sport’s attitude to body image.

Germany’s federation said it was taking a stand against “sexualisation in gymnastics”, and one of its athletes, Sarah Voss, said she wanted to be a “role model for young gymnasts who don’t feel very safe in every situation”.

Becky Downie, a British Olympic gymnast, said that the German team’s decision to wear the unitards could start a trend.

She added: “It has always been an issue for female gymnasts — how comfortable they feel, being very exposed.

“You should be able to feel comfortable and do your performance without the worry of what you look like. It’s so positive for young girls to feel they have a choice.”

Heafford said that she had always found the leotards she had to wear “humiliating” and praised the unitards as a positive option for gymnasts.

“They are way more gender neutral and make the body look different. It will take the emphasis off the ‘artistic line’, which is another word for ‘pre-pubescent look’.

“It’s a desexualisation. It stops gymnastics being for little girls, prancing around in sequin leotards, and makes you think: this is a serious athlete.”

The International Federation of Gymnastics said: “The possibility to wear unitards in competitions has been stated in the Fig rules for several years. In rhythmic gymnastics, for example, many gymnasts are used to wearing full-legged leotards.

“In late October, during an online conference aimed at fostering changes to ensure a positive culture and safe training in the sport, Fig reminded the gymnastics community that the rules in artistic gymnastics offer possibilities to wear one-piece leotards extending to the ankles or with complete leg covering. Fig is pleased to see that athletes know that they can choose attire they feel the most comfortable with to compete.”

#British gymnastics #international federation of gymnastics #Becky downie #Sarah voss #Jennifer pinches #uk radfem #uk radical feminism #uk radical feminist #uk feminism

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Gymnastics Master Post: Women’s Quals

In regards to team USA:

1. Is anyone else not surprised at all to see that the individual spot that should have been Riley was wasted on Skinner?  What exactly was the point in bringing her, we all knew she wouldn’t get in on any finals or the all around, whereas Riley had a chance on bars.

2. Insanely underwhelming.  That’s it.  That’s the comment.  They’d better get it together if they want to win the team again because right now it’s not looking great.

3. Also those leotards were tacky as hell, I wish they had worn the podium training ones instead.

Now onto subdivision 2

I love that Listunova’s floor main theme is Russkaya (Russian Dance) by Tchaikovsky in Swan Lake, it’s very fitting!

It’s nonsense the Downies aren’t there, team GB messed up massively with that.

Melnikova’s floor routine is more entertaining than literally any of the US gymnasts.  She even did an entrechat, we love seeing gymnasts doing ballet and they actually look like ballet.

It’s so cool there’s a Sri Lankan gymnast and after the fall on the first, she looks so good!  

I miss Shang Chunsong.

Double layout dismount will forever be the most beautiful dismount for bars and I miss Gabby’s.

I’m obsessed with China’s leotards, especially Fan Yilin’s blue and white, they’re actually elegant which so many leos aren’t anymore.

MASKS GO OVER THE NOSE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.  OVER. THE. NOSE.

Okay in the dance elements of floor, someone please tell the gymnasts to extend their entire arm and have the energy go all the way down so they don’t just flop but actually look elegant and beautiful and meaningful.  Please.

I know it’s super common, but I love the back dive to candle mount on beam.  It’s so elegant!!

I’m so sad Sanne didn’t make it back to the beam finals, it was so nice to see a gymnast who wasn’t tumbling focused win in 2016.

Were Elisa Haemmerle’s legs supposed to be that bent in her vault??  They weren’t bent enough to look like a tuck, but also not straight at all...

Halfway through Russia’s bars, I’m falling asleep.  I’m just excited for men’s gymnastics.

#viktoria listunova #gymnastics #women’s gymnastics #Olympics #riley mccusker #mykayla skinner #ellie downie #becky downie #angelina melnikova #Milka Gehani #Shang Chunsong #gabby douglas #fan yilin #sanne wevers #elisa haemmerle #molly covers the olympics

[gymfanconfessions]

“I want the next Worlds to be a redemption for those who didn't get to go to the Olympics (Riley, Morgan, Becky, Giorgia) or didn't have the Olympics they imagined (Ellie, Larisa, Flavia).”

#gymnastics #confession #worlds 2021 #Riley mccusker #Morgan hurd #becky downie #giorgia villa #Ellie black #larisa iordache #flavia saraiva

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Becky Downie 🇬🇧

2021 World Championships (Kitakyushu)

#becky downie #team great britain #artistic gymnastics #gymnastics #black women #uneven bars #british gymnastics #kitakyushu 2021

[adricthemindnimon]

Lmao the French gymnasts screaming into a video chat 😂 throwback to Ellie Downie calling Becky after winning at Euros

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Becky Downie (GBR), UB, 2023 European Championships QF

6.3 / 8.066 - 14.366

#gymnastics #becky downie #Youtube

[gymnasticscoaching]

Becky Downie - COMEBACK

The Becky Downie Documentary [Ep. 1] Becky competed at the 2008 and 2016 Summer Olympics.  She is a double European champion (2014 and 2016) and 2014 Commonwealth Games champion on the uneven bars as well as the 2019 World silver medallist. Now age-31, Becky is training towards qualifying for Paris. The first episode includes her role in calling out British Gymnastics for past abuse. Very…

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#USAG #team gb #gymnastics #Morgan Hurd #Becky downie

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I’m rlly sorry but Kinsella, Jen Gadirova or Morgan should NOT have made the team over Becky. BG have just thrown away their only shot at a medal.

#British gymnastics sucks #justice for Becky downie #British gymnastics #all this over a 5.4 sv on vault #Becky downie

[fireessie]

Actually fuming at British Gymnastics right now.... What a way to shit on an athele, Becky deserved a hell of a lot better than this

#Not f1 #British gymnastics #LIKE FFS #She's a world silver medalist and you leave her off #Not to mention she lost her brother and still decided to go through with trials #She spoke out about her abuse and now you've done this #I'm fucking disgusted #becky downie