I was really surprised with the Olympic coverage on GYMmedia.com.
They are normally one of the very best sites. The European perspective. But I hardly linked to them at all during these Games. Their excellent analyst Dieter Hoffman was in Beijing. But updates and translations were slow. GYMmedia really needs a site overhaul.
For the 2008 Artistic competition, their coverage was sketchy. Somewhat better for Rhythmic.
GYMmedia was fairly good for Trampoline.
In fact, they are the only site reporting on a bit of a scandal in Men’s Trampoline.
The Bronze medalist from 2004, Henrik Stehlik from Germany, did not qualify to the Final. Germany protested. After a meeting 90min long, the Jury d’Appel voted 3:0 to add him as a 9th and extra Finalist.
Then F.I.G. President Bruno Grandi (ITA) talked to the Jury for an hour after their actual meeting. The Jury of Appeal reversed their decision. Stehlik was not allowed to compete the Final, after all.
… Now, FIG must make decisions on athlete selection all the time. But why did the President intervene? Is that part of the documented appeals process?
It seems very strange to me.
Click through to read the details, as well as Germany’s trampoline head coach Michael Kuhn’s opinion.
F.I.G.- President overrules Jury d’Appel – GYMmedia.com
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