Elena Colas rumour

[QuietColours]

The comments from Kaylia's personal doctor releasing her vs the federation doctor who didn't examine her played into the perception the FFG was part of the problem, as well as how many athletes from a number of gyms were upset at being required to leave their personal gyms to go to specific centers and the reports of abuse at those centers.

Frankly, it seems like a situation where everyone sucks.

 

[RedBirdie]

I think all three things can be true. Avoine's coaches are abusive. The French fed is a shit show. The French fed wanted Avoine's coaches to move to INSEP and are pissed they didn't.

 

[CameliasFingerpaint]

The issue the French federation has with Avoine is not the abusive practices, but rather their refusal to relocate? Because of so, fuck that. An absolute “Everybody Sucks Here” situation.

 

[KristyJ]

How would we feel as a fanbase if in a couple of years, Maggie Haney emerges with a top prospect. USAG can’t force the gymnast to change gyms, but it can prohibit coaches from being present on competition podiums, training camps etc. Because all that’s happened here is the equivalent of a Maggie Haney gymnast being invited to a rehabilitation camp in the US islands but told her coach cannot accompany her. We would all be applauding USAG for taking a tough stance. And if this gymnast’s mother starting ranting on social media about how the federation didn’t deserve her daughter and threatening to switch countries? We’d call her a psycho gymmom!

USAG requires a personal coach to travel with an athlete, so they actually ask the opposite. Jordan Chiles missed much of the 2018 season because USAG barred her coach, who showed up drunk to camp and drove with Jordan in the car while drunk, and Jordan didn't have a coach with whom to travel and thus couldn't attend camps/competitions. Sending an athlete to a training without a personal coach is actually against their rules now (very different from the 80s...)