Ok, I may be being totally ridiculous here but I feel so sad for my dd so if I am that’s fair enough and I’ll take it on the chin.
My dd, year 5, does recreational gymnastics, 1 hour a week. She’s done it in and off for years, really enjoys it and I know she’d love to be in a squad but in fairness she’s not that good and has never been asked and that ship has long since sailed, which she’s fine with.
Her gym club do a competition each year which everyone can join in, the Rec people and the squad people. They spilt them up into school years & either rec or squad so some groups were bigger than others. Her group had 7 in it, but a couple of the groups had only 3 in.
They did a floor routine and then vault and beam. For each of those there was a gold, a silver and a bronze medal so a total of 9 medals in each group, then a trophy for the overall winner of each group.
For the small groups it was a farce, the groups with only 3 in, they all got three medals of varying colours. There was one rec year that had 1 girl in it, so she won 3 gold medals!
In my daughters group everyone got at least one medal, except well you probably know what’s coming..my dd 
Across the entire club, which was approx 30 girls I’d say, my dd was the only one not to get a single medal.
I sat there watching them give them all out, watching my dd face get sadder and sadder. When they’d finished and she came over to me she burst into tears. I comforted her as best I could but was pretty cross about what I’d seen.
She cried all the way home and more when we got home.
This was a few days ago now and she seems to have bounced back so all good but I’m still so cross. I absolutely can cope with her getting no medals, that’s fine, it was the fact she was the only one.
For some of them, they had draws for some of the places so for example 2 in silver place or even 3 in bronze place so it really wouldn’t have killed them to tag on an extra bronze in one of the categories and then she wouldn’t have been taking a medal away from anyone else.
Or they could have bunched some of the groups together so they were all a decent size so there were other people without a medal.
Am I being unreasonable? She’s 9 years old and it was so bloody harsh.
I haven’t said anything, I don’t know any of the coaches and don’t want to come across as sour grapes cos she didn’t win anything.