5/31/2023 0 Comments Ellie downie fallI couldn’t get out of bed, I stopped training and didn’t know how to move on. The enormous number of confessions of this type forced the British Federation to undertake a profound reform and to undergo an audit, the results of which were published last June after 400 interviews with victims between 20, and which confirmed that the problems of physical and emotional abuse within gymnastics in Great Britain were “systemic”.Īs reported by the Selection Committee, Downie was not taken into account because she hadn’t competed in three years and that could lead to a nervous performance in the competition that they were going to seek to qualify for the next Olympic Games. It was then that in mid-July 2020, Ellie and her sister and also international gymnast Becky decided to publish a serious letter denouncing the British Federation’s training methods: “They required me on training campuses to lose 6 kilos in two weeks because otherwise there would be consequences,” Ellie wrote in that letter published on social media. ![]() Later came what we all know: pandemic, limitations to training, to compete and Games postponed. In those years, Downie won an all-around European title, a competition always dominated by the powers of the East and she added great performances in the jumping apparatus, where she became a bronze medalist at the 2019 Stuttgart World Cup. After a successful participation in her Olympic debut in Rio 2016 (13th all around), the young British woman positioned herself as one of the great gymnasts of the cycle that would end in Tokyo 2020, but which finally ended in 2021. The last few years in Ellie Downie’s career-and in her life-were quite stormy. Ellie Downie was an Olympian in Rio 2016.
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