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Don't blame the sport too much.

posted 18 years ago by GalitMirav
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IMO, the book that this movie is based on, "Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters" is too one-sided.

It's not the sport that's the problem. It's a handful of coaches and "stage parents" who put too much emphasis on winning instead of the gymnast's well-being.

Lately, however, the FIG, is making things more hard on everyone by making elite gymnastics more difficult and dangerous. Something has to be done with them. We should do what the girls in the movie Stick It did. Now if all the gymnasts would do that, the FIG would have to listen.

[–] 18 years ago

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[–] GalitMirav 17 years ago

The Stick It girls took siezed control of the competition after a series of bad scores from the biased judges and basically decided their own winners. Kind of like a walkout. It was great.

[–] mehuff 16 years ago

Biased judges definatly suck, but I thought that the ending of Stick It sucked. I was sooo disappointed. I understand the whole wanting to take control of the scores thing, but you're at the meet for one purpose: to compete against other people and hopefully kick their butts. It's not a competition anymore when you scratch every event just to prove a point (especially one that in the long run won't matter, after all they'll be washed up in a couple of years and yet the cycle of unfair scores will continue long after they're gone). The so called strike also seemed to discredit all of the hard work and training they put into the sport. Why train for 30 hours a week if your just going to throw it all away. In a perfect world unbiased judges would completely rock.. and then you wake up and realized it was all a dream.

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