gymnastics teams to London 2012 Olympics

The new process is still evolving. Many are confused, including me.

Is this correct?

Teams of five gymnasts … UPDATE. Six gymnasts at World’s, but only five at Olympics.

October 2010 – World Championships Rotterdam – top 24 teams advance

2011 – World Championships Tokyo – top 8 teams advance to Olympics & top 3 individuals on each apparatus (if not on one of the teams)

2012 – Olympic Qualifier London – only the teams ranked 9-16 compete with the top 4 of those 8 teams advancing to the Olympics. Or do all teams compete, qualification affecting only the teams ranked 9-16 from Tokyo?

SIIMPLE. … As simple as Facebook Privacy settings.

Here we go again … What unforeseen problems do you foresee?

Worse is the change in the competition calendar for Rotterdam.

Dwight Normile:

… For years, the men’s qualification rounds preceded the women’s (actually, this has varied over the years), but the schedule printed on the official Rotterdam worlds website has the women’s prelims on Oct. 16 and 17, followed by the men’s prelims on Oct. 18 and 19.

The women’s team final is slated for Oct. 20, the men’s on Oct. 21. Then it gets weird.

Both the men’s and women’s all-around finals are scheduled for the same day, Oct. 22, with the men’s at 4 p.m. and the women’s at 7:30 p.m. So much for celebrating your team victory the night before if you are an all-arounder.

I feel for any all-arounder from a top-eight team, such as Japan’s Kohei Uchimura or Germany’s Fabian Hambüchen. These guys will have to gear up for the all-around final less than 24 hours after competing in the emotionally draining team final, where they might have performed on all six events. It will be completely understandable if any of these guys fails to reach his potential in the apparatus finals the following two days.

Why schedule the men after the women for the prelims and team finals, only to reverse them for the all-around finals? With only four events (and eight skills counting) compared with six (10 skills) for men, it is far easier for female gymnasts to compete back-to-back all-around competitions than it is for men. …

International Gymnast – Stretching Out: Olympic Qualification & Guess Who’s Back? (updated)

_____ UPDATE:

A J of The All-Around recommends you download an Excel Spreadsheet with details on how this is supposed to work.

Gak. It’s much more complicated than I thought. There are going to be many not chosen, irate at F.I.G.

This much complexity was not needed. The main change desired was to get the top 3 on each apparatus at the last World Championships qualified to the Olympics. There are easier ways to make that happen.