how crappy is the FIG website?

Triple Full has a scathing review of the FIG (International Gymnastics Federation) website. Especially their photo galleries.

… Have you ever had the feeling that the FIG didn’t really know what it was doing? That it was just making things up as it went along, with nary a thought for the consequences of its decisions? We most definitely have. Over the years we’ve had countless discussions about how the FIG was ruining our sport with its trillion stupid rules, none of which increased the appeal of the sport in the slightest. Over the years we’ve spent days if not weeks lamenting the fact that gymnastics is no longer the artistic sport it once was, that competitions are no longer held the way they once were, etc. Often these conversations ended in a mega-frustrated “Can’t the FIG see what it’s doing? Don’t they watch their own competitions?”

Well, it appears they don’t. Or at least their press people and webmasters don’t. …

Triple Full – In Which We Say Unkind Things about the FIG

The FIG website for years barely worked at all.

The current edition I would say is “not bad”.

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Federation International Gymnastique – official website

At least it provides RSS feeds like this one: Main RSS. If you are one of the 10% of people who use an RSS Reader, that feature is critical.

Certainly I ignore their site, visiting it as infrequently as possible.

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