If you don’t like the open-ended code of points …
If you don’t like minimum age rules for gymnasts …
Then, you probably don’t like the International Gymnastics Federation President Bruno Grandi.
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… On January 22, 2010, the Chinese … newspaper Tianjin Daily released an interview of the FIG President Grandi …
Gymnastics has become accessible to everyone. It has created a social status and contributed to individual and collective fulfilment. It plays an incredible economic role, and continues to fascinate fans worldwide and inspire and galvanize us into action when we need it most.
For worse? There is the corruption that goes hand in hand with money, doping and cheating. I have been fighting against it since first I entered the world of sport. …
FIG – Get more for your money!
Surprisingly, the article doesn’t mention the elephant in the room, the looming disciplinary proceedings involving Chinese gymnasts Yang Yun and Dong Fangxiao, suspected of having violated minimum age requirements for participation in the 2000 Olympic Games.
That bomb will drop February 26, 2010.
(via The All Around Gymnastics News on Facebook)
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