Claire Heafford
@claireheafford
Ex-gymnast • Former 400m hurdler • Athlete rights advocate • NLP practitioner • M.A Cultural Theory • Politics fan • Founder @gymnasts4change & @resetlabfitness
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http://www.gymnastsforchange.com 10-06-2014 00:40:11
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Now the #IOC is supporting Putin's war by allowing both #Russia & #Belarus to compete at the Paris 2024.
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It was a privilege to be invited to speak on BBC Woman's Hour again today, following the release yesterday of our Open Letter to BG & all parties to the ICP.
Thank you Emma Barnett & Kat Craig for your time & support. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Full interview below:
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'Reform '25 is just reputation management... it’s not really engaging with the damage that these coaches have done to gymnasts'
Claire Heafford, the founder of the campaign group Gymnasts for Change, shares her views on British Gymnastics' reforms following the Whyte Review ⬇️
Dino Nocivelli
‘On the fringes of abuse’
‘Bordering on abuse’ etc.
Why is only sexual abuse criminalised?
Behaviour of ‘hard taskmasters’, the very worst of it, ought to be CRIMINAL
Huge 🙏🏻 to Eloise Jotischky for raising awareness of BG’s failed complaints process. Safeguarding policies are meaningless unless abusive coaching practices are sanctioned and abusive coaches are removed from the sport. To date BG has failed to ban any coaches since the Whyte Review.
Fallen Short Let’s hope it brings an end to the hours of ‘morning training’ at clubs across the country where families are wrongly persuaded by ambitious coaches (or clubs managing logistics) that regularly missing the first lessons of a school day is essential to their gymnastics ‘career’.
I never tell my story publicly. Always wanted to make sure the younger people were heard, but actually they helped me get brave. Felt good. Speak your truth. ❤️🙏🏽Abby Spadafora Melanie Hunt Ryan Sheehan
Fantastic work from Monique:
Why oh why do BG continue to run with these toxic narratives that it is the parents causing the problems?
Working with Parents in Sport Gymnastics is not football‼️
Be carefully who you get your info from before ‘educating’ BG on something you know little about. 🤯