Gymnasts and other athletes should be careful when deciding to practice / compete with pain, there could be some real injury involved that practicing and competiting on it more could aggravate it to the point that rest is no longer a solution for it, and surgery comes into the picture. Interesting article: "Stevenson: Gymnast fights through pain, aims for state" -[ Read More... ]

The whole tone for the article is set from the title: Gym Warriors. Gymnasts do have to be warriors too in a sense! :D

This is probably just written as a "fluff" piece to promote this college team.....but yes, it does say something and could feed into the glorification of ignoring pain that shouldn't be there - kind of like the Keri Strug controversy.

New article out today on the Michigan Daily, "Gym Warriors": http://www.michigandaily.com/media/storage/paper851/news/2006/09/28/Sports/Gym-Warriors-2313666.shtml?norewrite200609282101&sourcedomain=www.michigandaily.com . ...the tone of the article glorifies the aspect of practice-competing through pain...is it going too far? Things like this: [quote]Being the worst injury of Catrambone's[ Read More... ]

Update articles on the WOGA case are on the News page now; the coach from WOGA Christopher Wagoner pleads guilty to get a plea bargain and go to jail for 15 years. He has manipulated the 14 yr. old and her family, first by dropping her off to her home when the family needed help, then reducing the private lesson fee in exchange to making him dinner, doing family/friend stuff, massaging the girl[ Read More... ]