… Kohei Uchimura, the reigning World Champion, won’t compete at the first all-around World Cup in Jacksonville next month!
Lu Bo (CHN) and Sergey Khorokhordin (RUS) won’t follow the invitation either.
Still on the list are Philipp Boy (GER), Jonathan Horton (USA), Mykola Kuksenkov (UKR), Daniel Purvis (GBR), Koji Uematsu (JPN) and the 9th placed Samuel Hunter (GBR) and 12th Kim Soo Myun (KOR) from Worlds 2010. …
One downside of pre-selecting competitors months in advance is that many will be unavailable due to injury and / or yearly training plan.
If enough stars cancel, the resulting bad press could be enough to derail the entire revamped World Cup system.
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