GymNiceTic updates us on one of the biggest issues facing the International Gymnastics Federation.
Wolfgang Willam from FIG is there pitching the all new World Cup format for next season. Only eight all-arounder and twelve event specialists will be invited to a series of A meets, qualifying at World Championships in October.
To me the timeline sounds rushed. (Candidate cities need to be in Lausanne May 25th.)
It smacks of desperation. (World Cup has been a mess this season. Something had to be done.)
And I’m not sure getting the big prize money (700 000 Euros or $930,000) is going to happen.
… That said. I hope this does work. Prize money events have been a success in Germany. Indeed, part of the reason the old World Cup Final failed was because Hambuchen skipped it, competing instead at a cash meet at home.
That kind of money would be great for Artistic Gymnastics, especially on the Men’s side.
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That’s why Chusovitina is still round there too. She has several good reasons, and one powerful one is that in Germany she can actually earn money with her gymnastics. And then they wonder why we have so few elite gymnasts in Spain…
Meets you can follow would make sense too. An NCAA dual meet is followable. Nationals and Olys are just multi-ring circuses. No consideration for the audience, really. Just a mechanism of getting as many athletes as possible run through judging.
Right. That simplistic judging system works fine in a dual meet of 12 competitors. But not at in a bigger meet.
Full rules are online here:
http://figdocs.lx2.sportcentric.com/external/serve.php?document=1851
Thanks for the link!
Unfortunately I’m not at the Europeans
So I have to search the internet for interesting news…
Oops.
I deleted the mention of you actually being at the meet.
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