Siwan Mair has been confirmed as the permanent chief executive of Welsh Gymnastics, having served as the acting CEO since December 2025. She has been an integral part of the Welsh Gymnastics senior leadership team since becoming director of development in 2015. Mair has recently overseen Wales’ most successful Commonwealth Games in artistic gymnastics, with…
Natalie Pirks British Gymnastics says it will replace the independent complaints process set up after widespread concerns over the treatment of gymnasts, following criticism from victims of abuse. An independent report into practices across British gymnastics in June 2022 described systemic physical and emotional abuse in the sport and found gymnast wellbeing and welfare had…
The DTB announced a formal inquiry following the grave accusations of physical and mental abuse made by former gymnast Tabea Alt. These allegations sparked intense debate about the culture of high-performance sports and the safety of athletes within the system. Alt, a prominent German gymnast who retired in 2021, shocked the sports world with her…
Bronze medalist Tabea Alt said her health was “deliberately jeopardized” during her time with the German gymnastics federation DTB, when she was pressured into competing despite serious injuries. The German gymnastics federation DTB has pledged to launch an investigation into physical and mental abuse allegations made by 24-year-old retired gymnast Tabea Alt. On Sunday, the DTB told…
Mark Ansell A woman from York who first complained of being sexually abused by her sports coach 16 years ago has won damages from the gymnastics national governing body. Nikki O’Donnell’s former instructor, Stan Wild, was expelled as a member by British Gymnastics four years ago. Mr Wild denies the allegations and has never been…
The influence British gymnast Becky Downie and her sister Ellie will have had reforming the sport will better anything she achieved as an athlete, according to the two-time Olympian. Becky, 32, spoke out in 2020 alongside her younger sibling about “ingrained” and “completely normalised” abusive issues in the sport. The Whyte Review, published in 2022,…
Team GB’s women’s gymnastics team has suffered major disruption less than 3 months before the Paris Olympics after the national head coach David Kenwright suddenly quit his role. He only took over from Amanda Reddin in 2022, when she stood down following multiple allegations of abuse made against her. She has always denied the allegations….
David Kenwright, British Gymnastics’ head coach for women’s artistic gymnastics, has stepped down just three months before the Paris Olympics. Kenwright, who joined the governing body in 2017, oversaw Team GB’s first women’s Olympic team medal in 92 years at Tokyo in 2021. He also guided the team to a first-ever world silver in 2021,…
A family was treated “terribly” by a gymnastics club after reporting alleged sexual abuse, an investigation found. The parents of Kirsty, not her real name, alleged that she had been abused by a former coach when she was 10. The family were then excluded from the York club for a year, a report said. British…
“I never looked ill, I just looked like an athlete.” This elite sportswoman says she “became a bit obsessive with counting calories and weighing things” until she realised she had become “dangerously light”. More than a third of 143 respondents to a BBC questionnaire sent to elite British sportswomen said they have experienced disordered eating….