Gymnastics Canada:
China, a world superpower in gymnastics, is sharing the stage this week with a small but determined Canadian team in Kunshan City, marking the first time a foreign country has been invited to compete at the Chinese national championships.
The two countries also share a common desire to alter the growing and potentially dangerous emphasis on increasingly difficult skills at the expense of the artistry that once was a defining characteristic of the sport.
“We’ve been training with China for many years we share many common beliefs about competitive gymnastics,” says Jeff Thomson, the program director for the Canadian men’s gymnastics team.
“We both fear that the scoring system in men’s gymnastics is putting too much pressure on athletes to go for ever more difficult moves which in turn increases the risk of injuries and takes away from the artistic side of the sport.” …
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